AMD: Why we had to evacuate 276TB from Oracle DB to Hadoop
Found on The Register on Monday, 24 March 2014
AMD has migrated terabytes of information from an Oracle Database installation to an Apache Hadoop stack, claiming Oracle's pricey software was suffering from scaling issues.
Oracle is grappling with a shift in the data warehouse and analytics market: its core business is being squeezed by free and open-source on-premises software, and its cloud wing is facing off with Amazon Web Services and the like.
Oracle has missed the train. In the past they hurt and annoyed the open source community by trying to force everybody migrate to their products with a price tag. Now it's getting easier and cheaper to do business without Larry.