Jernigan, Kevin wrote:
On 3/25/16, 4:37 AM, "pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org on behalf of Mark Morgan 
Lloyd" <pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org on behalf of 
markmll.pgsql-gene...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

Just because a corporate has a hundred sites cooperating for inventory management doesn't mean that the canteen menus have to be stored on Oracle RAC :-)

Right, but often the customer has paid for a site license, in which case the IT 
department will just keep spinning up more Oracle (or SQL Server or DB2) 
databases when requests come in - even if it’s overkill for the proposed use 
case / workload, it’s less work if IT only has one database technology to 
support.

OTOH, if the license takes the number of CPUs/cores into account then adding even unsophisticated unrelated databases will, eventually, cost.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]


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