Autonomous Database

Using Oracle API for MongoDB on OCI

If you’ve ever had to deal with MongoDB after years (or even decades) of working with SQL, you’ve probably realized that querying JSON documents can sometimes be painful, to say the least. In response to this, Oracle (and(…)

First contact with OCI’s Autonomous Database

Introduction Benefits of going into the Oracle Cloud (OCI) are clear for most of us: no more datacenter and hardware to manage. But what else? On OCI, you can also decide to get rid of part of the DBA tasks(…)

Oracle ADB: rename the service_name connect_data

By Franck Pachot . Since Aug. 4, 2020 we have the possibility to rename an Autonomous Database (ATP, ADW or AJD – the latest JSON database) on shared Exadata infrastructure (what was called ‘serverless’ last year which is a(…)

RDBMS (vs. NoSQL) scales the algorithm before the hardware

By Franck Pachot . In The myth of NoSQL (vs. RDBMS) “joins dont scale” I explained that joins actually scale very well with an O(logN) on the input tables size, thanks to B*Tree index access,(…)