June 26, 2012
Is salesforce.com going to stick with Oracle?
Surprisingly often, I’m asked “Is salesforce.com going to stick with Oracle?” So let me refer to and expand upon my previous post about salesforce.com’s database architecture by saying:
- Today, salesforce.com uses Oracle as one of several ways to store data.
- salesforce.com’s use of Oracle isn’t very relational.
- salesforce.com is investing in HBase, after exploring other NoSQL options.
- salesforce.com surely has a very inexpensive Oracle license, reducing pressure to move any time soon. However …
- … salesforce.com’s use of Oracle has flipped from being a marketing advantage to a marketing liability.*
- It will be some years before any NoSQL option is mature enough to handle salesforce.com’s work.
- Especially through Heroku, salesforce.com is getting ever more experience with PostgreSQL.
Some day, Marc Benioff will probably say “We turned off Oracle across most of our applications a while ago, and nobody outside the company even noticed.”
*in that
- The marketing benefit “Oracle — it’s what the trustworthy big boys use” hardly matters any more.
- The marketing annoyance of Larry Ellison citing salesforce.com’s use of Oracle keeps growing.
Note: This blog post is less readable than it would be if I’d found a better workaround to WordPress’ bugs in the area of nested bullet points. I’m sorry.
Categories: NoSQL, OLTP, Oracle, salesforce.com, Software as a Service (SaaS)
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