Well, the webinar has been done. The recording has been posted to something called Jumpcut. This is video and audio. Check it out and give me feedback.
If that doesn't play for you, you can watch it on Jumpcut, From Oracle to EnterpriseDB: An Oracle ACE's Journey.
Thanks,
LewisC
InformationWeek has a good interview with Bruce: Open Source PostgreSQL Developer Bruce Momjian Spills The DB Beans.
In the interview, Bruce talks about how he spends one day a week at the EnterpriseDB site but most of his time working on Postgres.
There aren't a lot of quotes in the interview. I wonder if a longer interview is coming.
There are a few anti-comparisons between "bearded sage" Momjian and JBoss' Marc Fleury and, of course, the obligatory comparison to MySQL.
PostgreSQL sought to match major relational database systems and afterward addressed performance. "We didn't focus on performance until the end. MySQL had that right at the start," he acknowledges.
I did the EnterpriseDB Migration webinar today. The webinar was recorded and will be posted on the EnterpriseDB web site. I'll update this post with a link as soon as it is.
I think it went well. Derek had a family emergency and was not able to participate but his stand-in Matthew Bennett knew his stuff. He did the intro and then the follow up. We both answered questions.
There were some really good questions. I will try to cover some those here, in the future. For now, you can view the powerpoint presentation.
I really like the plug. That's kind of a cool image.
Take care,
LewisC
A question that I am asked very often it exactly what features are compatible between EnterpriseDB and Oracle. The short story is that the areas that you think of as "development", i.e. SQL, Code, etc are the areas where the compatibility exists.
Maintenance tasks are generally familiar as is the overall architecture. Any modern database will have logging, recovery, backups, etc. In EnterpriseDB, the way you code an application will be compatible with Oracle and the maintenance of an EnterpriseDB database will be familiar.
EnterpriseDB has published a white paper called, Delivering Oracle Compatibility. This paper outlines the exact points of compatibility very succinctly. I hope they keep it updated for each release.
This bulleted list from the white paper outlines it pretty well:
I will be doing a webinar next week, Aug 22 at 1PM Eastern. If you can't make it in real-time, the webinar will be recorded and will be available for viewing afterwards on the EnterpriseDB.com web site.
The webinar was announced in the EnterpriseDB press release for my book, EnterpriseDB Announces Availability of Definitive Reference Book.
From the press release:
Lewis Cunningham will describe his progression from EnterpriseDB skeptic to advocate in a live Webinar, From Oracle to EnterpriseDB: An Oracle ACE's Journey, on Wednesday, Aug. 22 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. The Webinar will also feature a step-by-step migration of an Oracle application to EnterpriseDB Advanced Server. To register for the Webinar, please visit www.enterprisedb.com/bookwebcast.
EnterpriseDB, the Oracle-compatible database company, today announced that EnterpriseDB Advanced Server has won the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for Best Database Solution. EnterpriseDB Advanced Server beat both Oracle 11g and Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite to take the top honor.
"EnterpriseDB uniquely enables enterprises to run applications written for Oracle databases for a tiny fraction of Oracle's cost," said Andy Astor, chief executive officer, EnterpriseDB. "We were thrilled in 2005 to have taken the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for our industry-changing product and again in 2006 for our continued innovation. This year's award for Best Database Solution, especially in light of the hype surrounding Oracle 11g, is a gratifying endorsement of our product and strategy."
I thought Oracle XE won this award last year? Has EnterpriseDB won it 3 years in a row?
LewisC
EnterpriseDB has introduced a new feature called the ROI Calculator. The calculator allows you to enter an Oracle configuration and compare the cost to an equivalent EnterpriseDB cost. You can even add extras like the partitioning option, OLAP, Data Mining and Spatial. A nice addition is the ability to enter a discount for Oracle. Most organizations get at least a partial discount on their purchases. The ROI also includes a 5 year support cost which somewhat skews the results (but in a direction you will likely go anyway).
I played with several configurations to see how they compared. I started with a fairly common configuration, 4 CPU Enterprise Edition with Partitioning. I included a 20% discount for Oracle.
Even though I know that EnterpriseDB is a lot cheaper to license, I was somewhat surprised at the difference in this configuration: $428,800 for Oracle vs 100,000 for a difference of $328,800. Remember this is over 5 years.
I entered the values for a little bit more robust configuration but one that is still not totally unusual: 16 CPU EE with Partitioning and a 20% discount. The numbers are even more dramtic: $1,372,160 for Oracle and $400,000 for EnterpriseDB for a difference of $972,160. That's almost a million dollars over 5 years and that's with a 20% discount on Oracle.
Finally, I tried it with a very basic configuration: 4 CPU Standard Edition, no partitioning and a 20% discount. The totals: $100,800 for Oracle and $100,000 for EnterpriseDB. Much closer. In this configuration, you lose the ability to partition in Oracle (you can partition in all configurations of EnterpriseDB), but you gain RAC (included in an SE license without an extra cost).
All of these EnterpriseDB prices include the premium support costs. The differences are even more dramatic if you choose Basic support over the Premium support offering. A premium support license for 4 CPUs is $100,000 (over 5 years) where as a basic support is only $30,000. The same comparison with 16 CPUs is $400,000 for premium and $120,000 over 5 years.
All in all, this ROI calculator shows that significant savings can be made. You still need to verify that EnterpriseDB is compatible for your applications.
This is just too cool. Today, EnterpriseDB announced at LinuxWorld that they are offering GridSQL, a data warehouse and OLAP clustering solution. According to the doc, the EnterpriseDB page for GridSQL, the tool offers:
oracle enterprisedb rac real application clusters gridsql parallel
EnterpriseDB got the finalist nod for Best Database Solution, for the third year, and for GridSQL For EnterpriseDB. This is the first I have heard of GridSQL and I am looking forward to more info.
GridSQL for EnterpriseDB Advanced Server is a new product that will be announced at LinuxWorld on Aug. 7, 2007.About all I can think is that it is something like pgCluster which is a multi-master, bi-directional replication tool for PostgreSQL. I have a hard believing that's what it because 1) they already have a replication tool and 2) the naming would be incredibly unfortunate.
