cost

Amazon DynamoDB: the cost of indexes

By Franck Pachot . That’s common to any data structure, whether it is RDBMS or NoSQL, indexes are good to accelerate reads but slow the writes. This post explains the consequences of adding indexes in DynamoDB. Secondary Indexes What(…)

5 mistakes you should avoid with Oracle Database Appliance

Introduction It has been 5 years I’m working on ODA and I now have a quite good overview of the pros and the cons of such a solution. On one hand, ODA can greatly streamline your Oracle Database environment if(…)

Oracle Licensing (R)evolution with VMware

In 2015 I wrote a blog named “All you need to know about Oracle Database licensing with VMware”. This blog generated lots of comments and hopefully helped some DBAs and IT Managers understanding the potential issues that they(…)