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Database in Amazon EC2

Today we are going to look at what it takes to get a 12c database instance up and running in Amazon EC2. Note that this is different than our previous posts on...

Today we are going to look at what it takes to get a 12c database instance up and running in Amazon EC2. Note that this is different than our previous posts on getting Standard Edition running on Amazon and running Enterprise Edition running on Amazon RDS. We are going to take the traditional approach as if we were installing the database on a virtual image like VMWare, HyperV, or OracleVM. The approach is to take IaaS and layer the database upon it. There are a few options...

Amazon RDS

Today we are going to look at Amazon RDS as a solution for running the Oracle Database in the cloud. According to the Amazon RDS website RDS is an easy to set...

Today we are going to look at Amazon RDS as a solution for running the Oracle Database in the cloud. According to the Amazon RDS website RDS is an easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business. Amazon RDS provides you six familiar database engines to choose from, including Amazon...

Database as a Virtual Image

The question that we are going to dive into this week is what does it really mean to be platform as a service vs infrastructure as a service. Why not go to...

The question that we are going to dive into this week is what does it really mean to be platform as a service vs infrastructure as a service. Why not go to Amazon and spin up an EC2 instance or search for an Oracle provided AMI on Amazon or Virtual Image on Azure? What benefit do I get from PaaS? To answer that we need to look at the key differences. Let's look at the two options when you provision a database in the Oracle DBaaS. When you provision a database you have the...

DBaaS for real this time

We have danced around creating a database in the Oracle Public Cloud for almost a week now. We have talked about Schema as a Service, Exadata as a Service,...

We have danced around creating a database in the Oracle Public Cloud for almost a week now. We have talked about Schema as a Service, Exadata as a Service, licensing, and the different versions of DBaaS. Today, let's tackle what it takes to actually create a database. It is important to note that the accounts that we are using are metered services accounts. We don't have the option to run as a non-metered service and have to provision the services on an hourly or monthly...

technology behind DBaaS

Before we can analyze different use cases we need to first look at a couple of things that enable these use cases. The foundation for most of these use cases is...

Before we can analyze different use cases we need to first look at a couple of things that enable these use cases. The foundation for most of these use cases is data replication. We need to be able to replicate data from our on-premise database into a cloud database. The first issue is replicating data and the second is access rights to the data and database allowing you to pull the data into your cloud database.Let's first look at how data is stored in a database. If you use...

DBaaS in Oracle Public Cloud

Before we dive deep into database as a service with Oracle we need to define some terms. We have thrown around concepts like Standard Edition, Enterprise...

Before we dive deep into database as a service with Oracle we need to define some terms. We have thrown around concepts like Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, High Performance Edition, and Extreme Performance Edition. We have talked about concepts like DataGuard, Real Application Clustering, Partitioning, and Compression. Today we will dive a little deeper into this so that we can focus on comparing them running in the Oracle Public Cloud as well as other cloud providers....

Exadata as a Service

For the last four days we have been focusing on Database as a Service in the cloud. We focused on Application Express, or Schema as a Service, in the last three...

For the last four days we have been focusing on Database as a Service in the cloud. We focused on Application Express, or Schema as a Service, in the last three days and looked at pricing and how to get APEX working in the Oracle Public Cloud, Amazon AWS, and Microsoft Azure. With the Oracle Public Cloud we have three options for database in the cloud at the platform as a service layer; Schema as a Service, Database as a Service, and Exadata as a Service. We could run this in...

APEX in Azure

Today we are going to look and see what it takes to get Schema as a Service running in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Our last two entries looked at Schema as a...

Today we are going to look and see what it takes to get Schema as a Service running in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Our last two entries looked at Schema as a Service, or Application Express, or APEX, running in the Oracle Public Cloud for free, $175, $900, or $2000/month or running in the Amazon RDS Service for $50 - $2700/month. The idea behind Schema as a Service is that you are leasing a database instance on a compute server in the cloud. You get automated backup, html and...

Apex in Amazon AWS

Today we are going to look at running Schema as a Service using Amazon AWS as your IaaS foundation. Yesterday we looked at Schema as a Service using Oracle...

Today we are going to look at running Schema as a Service using Amazon AWS as your IaaS foundation. Yesterday we looked at Schema as a Service using Oracle DBaaS. To quickly review, you can run a schema in the cloud using apex.oracle.com for tables upto 25 MB for free or cloud.oracle.com for tables of 5 GB, 20GB, or 50 GB for a monthly fee. You do not get a login to the operating system, database, or file system but do everything through an html interface. You can query the...