I’m starting a web application and I’m hesitating if it is worth to use Oracle in order to have a better performance / scalability. Thanks
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I’m starting a web application and I’m hesitating if it is worth to use Oracle in order to have a better performance / scalability. Thanks
Oracle requires significantly more infrastructure and specialized staff to be maintained than MySql for example. It offers, arguably, more in return. But since you are talking about scalability / performance, bear in mind that Wikipedia, Flicker, Facebook (and many of the most visited sites in the world today) run under MySQL…
So, put your focus on designing well your database instead of trying to find out which platform to use. Every single one of them has many strengths today, and are ready for production and demanding environments.
I, myself, would never ever even consider using Oracle from the start in a new Web Application. I would only jump to that more expensive RDBMS if really needed.
It can also pay off to use a ORM tool that will give you database independence, so changing the RDBMS will not be a big issue at all.