Oracle, an open source database purchased by Sony, was partially replaced

According to foreign media reports on Monday, Sony Online Entertainment, which is mainly engaged in online games, recently signed an agreement with the open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB to buy a large number of database products and support services. Sony Online said it would replace some Oracle databases with EnterpriseDB. While purchasing services, Sony Online also made an investment in vodisedb, known

According to foreign media reports on Monday, Sony Online Entertainment, which is mainly engaged in online games, recently signed an agreement with the open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB to buy a large number of database products and support services. Sony Online said it would replace some Oracle databases with EnterpriseDB. While purchasing services, Sony Online also made an investment in vodisedb, known

According to foreign media reports on Monday, Sony Online Entertainment, which is mainly engaged in online games, recently signed an agreement with the open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB to buy a large number of database products and support services. Sony Online said it would replace some Oracle databases with EnterpriseDB.

While purchasing the service, Sony Online also made an investment in EnterpriseDB, known as the third shareholder recently registered with the open-source database vendor. Previously, two venture capital companies, Charles River-level Valhalla, have invested $7 million in the company.

Sony's online game network provides services to thousands of users. Rick?, vice president of the company? Heman said that in the early stage, the company will first use EnterpriseDB in background applications, such as the customer's billing system, and gradually move to the front-end of running game services.

Heman said Sony will replace Oracle databases of some Oracle companies with EnterpriseDB. The main reason for purchasing the EnterpriseDB service this time is that Oracle's software license costs are too high. In addition, EnterpriseDB and Oracle have good compatibility and are easier to migrate some application software, enterpriseDB has another advantage that it does not have many useless products. It is reported that Sony has started to migrate the system.

Herman did not disclose how many Oracle servers will be replaced and how many isedb sets will be purchased. However, it was revealed that Sony purchased a large number of isedb licenses this time. After a while, Heman said, "the second batch of purchases will be extremely large ".

Currently, Oracle Database Enterprise Edition licenses a fee of USD 40 thousand per processor. The license for EnterpriseDB, coupled with the highest level of service in a year, is only USD 5000. Last year, Oracle launched a free version of XE database, but there are many restrictions on application conditions, such as the data file cannot exceed 4 GB, and the server memory cannot exceed 1 GB, it is not suitable for actual use.

According to reports, Sony Online once considered the "overlord" of the open-source database Field MySQL, but later believed that EnterpriseDB and Oracle products had better compatibility. Currently, the company's database servers use the Linux Enterprise Edition operating system.

Andy, Chief Executive Officer of vodisedb, said the deal would encourage other Fortune 500 companies to use their open source database products. "It will send a message to other Fortune 499," he said ."

It is worth mentioning that the EnterpriseDB open source database is not "original" and is developed based on the early PostgreSQL open source database project. According to open-source software licensing practices, software should be free of charge, but services can be charged.