New Approaches to Integrating Oracle and Postgres Database Strategies

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New Approaches to Integrating Oracle
and Postgres Database Strategies
Ed Boyajian, President and CEO of EDB
Craig Guarente, CEO and Founder of Palisade Compliance
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• EDB and Pallisade Compliance info at end
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Our Speakers
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Ed Boyajian
President and CEO
EnterpriseDB
Craig Guarente
CEO and Founder
Palisade Compliance

1. Realities of Oracle and Postgres
2. Managing Oracle licenses
3. Migration continuum
4. New strategies
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AGENDA

Oracle & Postgres
Coexistence:
Take Control Of Oracle
Craig Guarente
CEO and Founder
Palisade Compliance

POLL
QUESTION
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Oracle Lock-in Strategy
• Acquisitions
• Peoplesoft, Siebel, BEA, Sun…
• Support Policies
• Repricing, Auto-renewals, Extended
Support
• Contracts
• Unlimited License Agreements,
Mergers and Acquisitions
• Audits

Common Missteps
• We will be completely off Oracle
in 6 months!
• Focus on technology and
forget the contracts
• Underestimate Oracle’s reach

Keys To Coexistence
Technical alternative
Ability to reduce/contain
your Oracle costs and risks
Momentum to move in
a different direction

What successful companies
do (on the Oracle side)
• Oracle contract and policy review
• Oracle compliance position
• Plan creation and execution
• Oracle license health checks

WHY ORACLE ALTERNATIVES?
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LICENSING
COSTS
OPEN SOURCE
STRATEGY
CLOUD MIGRATION
& REPLATFORMING

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MIGRATION IS NOT EASY
MIGRATIONS
ARE HARD
ORACLE
SKILLS
TROUBLESOME
CONTRACTS
ORACLE
APPS
• Much consideration, assessment, and
effort required
• Businesses have invested in resources
who have Oracle skills
• Reducing Oracle software licenses is
contractually challenging.
• Oracle-licensed applications are tied to
Oracle databases.

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CONSIDERATIONS OF A MIGRATION
• Objects and code
• Mapping data types
• Handling syntax differences
• Raising incompatibilities
SCHEMAS
• Methodology
• Bulk, ongoing, fallback
• Tools
• ETL, validation
DATA
• Hosting environment
• Deployment type
• DBMS optimization
• Proprietary utilization
INFRASTRUCTURE
• Code
• Languages
• Connectors
• Syntax
APPLICATION
• Performance
• Optimization
• Indexing

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EDB POSTGRES COMPATIBILITY
WITH ORACLE
BASIC
SOLUTION
ONLY PART
OF THE WAY
SCHEMA, DATA
ALL THE WAY
SCHEMA, DATA AND CODE

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ValueofPostgres
Postgres Maturity
Emerging
Getting started with Postgres
Often for a single project
For test/dev apps
Expanding
• Increasingly for production apps
• Tools and automation important
• Worries about database security
Strategic
• Postgres considered a “standard”
• Many production apps incl. tier 1
• Concerns for scalability, HA,
and automation
Postgres + Oracle
Journey
ITS NOT ALWAYS A MIGRATION

ORACLE AND POSTGRES
INTEGRATION STRATEGIES
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INTEGRATION OPTIONS
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Difficulty
Cost
Replication Rewrite Non-Critical Apps
New App Dev Rewrite Critical Apps
EDB Postgres
compatibility
reduces difficulty

1. POSTGRES REPLICATION OR DATA LINKS
Benefits
• Leverages existing Oracle skills
• Improves transaction & reporting performance
• Proves integration capabilities
Cost Savings
• Moderate
• No new Oracle licenses
Difficulty
• Very Low
• Focus on reporting
• Non-invasive
• Fast Time to Value
A plumbing challenge

2. FOCUS ON NEW APPLICATION DEV
Benefits
• Learn the capabilities without migration or existing code constraints
Cost Savings
• Moderate
• No new Oracle licenses
Difficulty
• Very Low
• Green field effort
• Non-mission critical
• Fast time to value
Balancing risk vs. reward

3. REWRITE NON-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS
Benefits
• Preserves data and most Oracle code
• Reduces dependence on Oracle
Cost Savings
• Significant
• Recycle Oracle licenses
Difficulty
• Moderate
• Focus on migration issues
• Longer time to value
Significant effort

4. REWRITE MISSION CRITICAL APPS
Benefits
• Preserves data and most Oracle code
• Reduces dependence on Oracle
• Provides leverage against Oracle
Cost Savings
Largest
Recycle, Reduce or eliminate Oracle licenses
Difficulty
• Very Low
• Focus on reporting
• Non-invasive
• Fast Time to Value
Heaviest lift

HOW EDB AND
PALLISADE
CAN HELP
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KEYS TO COEXISTENCE
1. Make Postgres a technical alternative
2. Choose the right database for the workload
3. Build equal footing between Postgres and Oracle

1. MAKE POSTGRES A TECH ALTERNATIVE
Postgres POC EDB Migration Portal Free Postgres training

Contact info@palisadecompliance.com and
mention EDB and get 5% discount on 45 Day
Independence and Cost Containment Review
Sign up for any online Oracle training on
Paliversity.com, enter “EnterpriseDB” in
the promo code and receive 10% discount
2. TAKE CONTROL OF ORACLE
🤠

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3. DISCUSSION
HOW DO YOU BUILD EQUAL FOOTING?
with business people? with technical people?

info@enterprisedb.com
info@palisadecompliance.com
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THANK YOU

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