We started a new SaaS company last year. We use Java + Oracle from the get go.
Last company was very reliant on Oracle, we ran the entire business on a single Oracle instance for a couple of decades.
We had our share of adventures, but over the years never lost a minute's worth of data despite server, hard drive and other issues. We've also had a few scary performance problems, but have always been able to tune the DB to get past them. And once or twice, we've been in a dark place where you are googling for cryptic error codes, and we've always come through. That's a lot of business and millions of dollars earned through having a very reliable database underneath.
For us, the cost equation is whether it's worth learning a new DB. It's not. If you can run your business on a single instance, then on AWS, it's cheaper to stick with what you know than to try and move to a new DB for a few K of saved licence fees.
What's more, using Oracle is a good answer when the PHBs at our customers ask about our stack. No one ever got fired for using Oracle.
So yes, it certainly makes sense to use Oracle for new projects if you are already Oracle experts.
Last company was very reliant on Oracle, we ran the entire business on a single Oracle instance for a couple of decades.
We had our share of adventures, but over the years never lost a minute's worth of data despite server, hard drive and other issues. We've also had a few scary performance problems, but have always been able to tune the DB to get past them. And once or twice, we've been in a dark place where you are googling for cryptic error codes, and we've always come through. That's a lot of business and millions of dollars earned through having a very reliable database underneath.
For us, the cost equation is whether it's worth learning a new DB. It's not. If you can run your business on a single instance, then on AWS, it's cheaper to stick with what you know than to try and move to a new DB for a few K of saved licence fees.
What's more, using Oracle is a good answer when the PHBs at our customers ask about our stack. No one ever got fired for using Oracle.
So yes, it certainly makes sense to use Oracle for new projects if you are already Oracle experts.
Java is somewhat the same equation as well ;)