Oracle Unleashes HeatWave on MySQL, Thumps Amazon Redshift & Aurora
As businesses surge into the data-powered digital economy, Oracle has enhanced its MySQL cloud database service with a souped-up in-memory query accelerator called HeatWave that gives the Oracle bundle huge price and performance advantages over Amazon’s Redshift and Aurora databases.
For MySQL business users, that means a whole new ballgame for running analytics against transactional data all in the same database. Those users no longer need to:
Oracle says that while Amazon (with its Aurora and Redshift databases), Snowflake, Microsoft and others are positioning themselves as cloud-native databases, the price and performance benefits of Oracle MySQL Database Service + HeatWave are overwhelming.
Indeed, the benchmark data below—which Oracle says is available for anyone to replicate on GitHub—shows that when you compare MySQL Database Service + HeatWave to Amazon Aurora, the performance spread looks like this:
“Oracle MySQL Database Service + HeatWave is the only MySQL service with an integrated massively scalable cloud-native query accelerator,” said Nipun Agarwal, Oracle VP for MySQL HeatWave and Advanced Development.
