Traditional databases like Oracle now history: Amazon CTO
As the Cloud continues to drive down the cost of storage and computing, a new generation of applications has emerged, creating a new set of requirements for databases, said Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Retail giant Amazon that rode on its growing Cloud business to log $72.4 billion sales in the December quarter, strongly believes that traditional databases that companies like Oracle provide are gone and customers are now seeking data compute and storage solutions to solve specific problem sets. According to Amazon's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Werner Vogels , as the Cloud continues to drive down the cost of storage and computing, a new generation of applications has emerged, creating a new set of requirements for databases. "Unlike traditional databases which claim to solve every possible scenario, we believe in giving more choices to the customers who are constantly looking for databases that can solve a particular problem set for them," Vogels told ...