Larry Ellison: Oracle Database 1,000x Faster Than AWS Aurora

They don&#x27;t even bother <i>trying</i> to make this sound believable.<p>You claim it&#x27;s 1.5x-2x faster? Sure I might believe that despite your prohibition against benchmarks.<p>10x faster? You better show how your engineers pulled out that miracle.<p><i>1000x?</i> You&#x27;ve either picked out a <i>very weird</i> edge case, used something in a way it&#x27;s not meant to be used, or just made that up. Anyone who&#x27;s done any serious benchmarking in a competitive space will instantly recognize that as a &#x27;that cant be right&#x27; result.

&gt; We use this very fast RDMA network, and we start with that. And in our Gen2 Cloud, our entire network is a super-fast network, which means that most of the applications you run in the Oracle Cloud are going to be much faster than our competitors’ clouds because they don’t use that kind of network. So we have huge cost advantages.<p>So instead of giving actual metrics, just say &quot;very fast&quot;, &quot;super-fast&quot; and &quot;much faster&quot;. Even for wall street that seems a bit shallow.

Guess which one you can&#x27;t benchmark and publish results on.

My homemade database is 1,000x faster that Oracle in benchmarks.<p>No you can&#x27;t see it. It goes to a different school.

Title is a bit misleading, since Oracle is the brand and well as the a specific database product, he is claiming that Oracles cloud hosted version of mysql is faster than AWS Aurora, not claiming that Oracle DB is faster than mysql.

Congratulations on aggressively suing the poor souls who don&#x27;t know better than to never use an Oracle product. Get lost

It would be unsurprising to find that Oracle&#x27;s MySQL cloud service is 1000x faster than AWS Aurora for some specific things, or maybe even entire classes of problems.<p>It would be equally unsurprising if Aurora is 1000x faster for other classes of problems.

[citation needed]

Larry, you are getting <i>spanked</i> by Oceanbase.<p>You haven&#x27;t even bothered to compete since SPARC.<p>When you&#x27;re back in the game, let us know.<p><pre><code> Tencent 814,854,791 Oceanbase 707,351,007 Oracle 11g SPARC 30,249,688 </code></pre> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tpc.org&#x2F;tpcc&#x2F;results&#x2F;tpcc_results5.asp?print=false&amp;orderby=tpm&amp;sortby=desc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tpc.org&#x2F;tpcc&#x2F;results&#x2F;tpcc_results5.asp?print=fal...</a>

&gt; we have customers moving from Amazon Aurora where they’re experiencing a 1,000x speedup versus Aurora.<p>&gt; So we’re a thousand times faster in query processing than Amazon’s version of MySQL<p>No, “some customers are experiencing 1,000 speedup”, even if true, does not imply that, in general, your db offering is 1,000 faster.

This sounds more like an attack on the AWS hardware (Nitro?) . Does Nitro not have RDMA? I&#x27;m very curious if someone can discuss this. (Currently studying for AWS Solutions architect exam)

Was a couple of years since I was in the backend industry, but then I heard plenty of people settle for less rather than &quot;dealing with Oracles licensing bull**&quot;.<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s better now?

It&#x27;s a trap!

What toteelal is this?