Oracle's Ellison Dismisses Amazon's Cloud Databases As Eons Behind

In a brazen attack on Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN at the Oracle OpenWorld event, an annual Oracle convention, Oracle Corporation ORCL's chief technology officer Larry Ellison said Amazon's databases are 20 years behind of Oracle's databases in the cloud.

The renewed push toward cloud comes at a time when its traditional hardware and application software businesses are sagging. The recently reported first-quarter results showed that it experienced 2 percent growth in its software licensees and support, although new software licenses fell 11 percent. Hardware business' showing was not anything to boast either, as revenues fell 12 percent.

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At the same, cloud software and cloud platform business along with cloud infrastructure ringed in revenues of $969 million, growth of 59 percent.

Reeling off numbers to support his claim of an Oracle superiority, Ellison said Oracle Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) was 150 times faster for Analytics workload, 35 times faster for online transaction processing (OLTP) and 1000+ times faster for mixed workloads relative to Amazon's DBaaS.

Luring customers to Oracle Cloud, Ellison claimed that an Oracle database running on the Oracle Cloud performed up to 24 times faster than an Oracle Database running on Amazon Web Services, or AWS. He was critical of AWS, stating that is not optimized even for Amazon's databases. Delving on the versatility, Ellison noted that Oracle's cloud database offers a lot of choices.

The latest Oracle Database 12c Release 2 in the Cloud, according to the company, is the most optimized, complete and integrated Cloud for Oracle Database.

At time of writing, Amazon's shares were up 0.13 percent at $781.44 and Oracle's were up 0.78 percent at $39.38.

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