Oracle Enters the Cloud (MySQL Enterprise Too)
Oracle and Amazon today announced that Oracle would be offering some of their products inside Amazon’s EC2 cloud.
The Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Enterprise Manager can now be licensed to run in the cloud on Amazon EC2. Customers can even use their existing software licenses with no additional license fees.
While I see nothing specifically about Oracle Spatial, I assume is can be licensed as well on the cloud. The benefit to everyone is outside of licensing costs, the ability to launch the Oracle AMIs on EC2 and be up and running in no time. That plus the scaleability of EC2 (and thus Oracle) means that you don’t have to worry about hardware limitations with your applications. RSP Architects uses SQL Server as our database of choice, and while I would have been able to run Oracle in a virtual server, I no longer have to worry about hardware constraints to our development. Just license (which of course I realize is a problem for some people) and start loading the database. I’m anxious to see how ArcGIS connects to Oracle Spatial on EC2 and what kind of performance I can expect.
Cloudzilla could be unbeatable with Oracle in his hands
Now for those who want to avoid Oracle, MySQL Enterprise as well in the Amazon Cloud.
It’s too bad that ESRI doesn’t have a license for ArcGis Server that could take advantage of this. Their Linux version could probably be made to run on EC2 with a little bit of work.
Nice post.
It will be interesting to see how far Oracle is willing to go so that they can join the Party in the Cloud.
I think that this could be a big if not huge asset to AWS and the cloud computing community.
James,
I would like to add that while PostgreSQL/PostGIS don’t make a big whoop-di-do about running in the cloud, reports suggest they can too
http://endurotracker.blogspot.com/2008/08/db-cloud-computing-postgresql-setup-on.html
http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2008-July/020463.html
I would think that would be more appropriate for ArcGIS 9.3 users trying to save a wad of cash than Oracle or MySQL.
Hm…still no Oracle XE for now, though. I might like to try this cloud malarkey out as cheaply as possible for a simple web-based app with a bit of spatial functionality (just simple query functions like MBR/polygon contains/intersects/buffer etc). Anybody know if PostgreSQL/PostGIS are running in the “cloud” yet?
Duh – how did I miss Regina’s post? Thanks!
You didn’t. I think James had to explicitly let it thru since I guess I had too many urls in there.