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How do I freaking scale Oracle?

A quick-and-dirty guide to scaling your apps with Oracle DB

By Andrew C. Oliver, InfoWorld, 02/07/13

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Well, we haven't yet addressed cost. It isn't that you can't scale Oracle -- but you must weigh the costs of doing so. Most of the companies I work with have existing systems, and the cost of migration to a different type of database after years of coding directly to Oracle is daunting by comparison. For new systems, however, NoSQL can look a lot more attractive.

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