Fear Quote by Vlad Mihalcea

It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning,…

— Larry Ellison

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs

— Linus Torvalds

If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.

— Parker Harris

“Reader, if you don’t know what a database is, rest assured that an explanation of the concept would in no way increase your enjoyment…

— Neal Stephenson

My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming…

— Anders Hejlsberg

“It was important to us that for a developer, adding production telemetry didn’t feel as difficult as doing a database schema change.”

— Gene Kim

We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database…

— Larry Ellison

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

— Dave Barry

Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work…

— David Karp

“native queries are unavoidable in any non-trivial enterprise application”

— Vlad Mihalcea

“The moral of the story is that a NoSQL system may find itself accidentally reinventing SQL, albeit in disguise.”

— Martin Kleppmann

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

— John Carmack