Oracle's cloud-based database service MySQL HeatWave is now available to be hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company confirmed.
Launched in December 2020, HeatWave is designed to allow customers to run analytics on data stored in MySQL databases, without the need for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load).
Although Oracle's database service is hosted on AWS, it is not provided in partnership with Amazon and directly competes with Amazon's own database services, such as Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, or Amazon Redshift.
What does it mean?
Oracle says the move will mean users will be able to run transaction processing, analytics, and machine learning workloads on a single service, without "requiring time-consuming ETL replication" between separate databases.
Oracle used the example of Amazon Aurora for transaction processing, Redshift or Snowflake on AWS for analytics, and SageMaker for machine learning.
The new product appears to offer 7x better price performance than Amazon Redshift, 10x better than Snowflake, 12x better than Google BigQuery, and 4x better than Azure Synapse on the 4TB TPC-H* benchmark, if Oracle's claims are believed.
The new product also brings new security features to the table, apparently including server-side data masking and de-identification, asymmetric data encryption, and a database firewall.
Additionally, Oracle has also indicated that the service will also be available soon on Microsoft Azure as well as Oracle's Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Oracle could engage in activities that could threaten AWS's dominance in the cloud.
Microsoft has reportedly brought together other big players in the space, such as Google Cloud and Oracle, to lobby the US government to ensure large-scale cloud computing contracts are split between different providers, what is called a multi-cloud approach.
"Many of our MySQL HeatWave customers have migrated from AWS. Others want to continue running parts of their application on AWS," said Edward Screven, Oracle's chief enterprise architect. “These customers face serious challenges, including exorbitant data egress fees charged by AWS and increased latency when accessing a database service running in the Oracle cloud.”
He added: "We solve these problems while delivering exceptional performance and pricing for transactions, analytics, and machine learning compared to other cloud database providers."
The news comes as Oracle reported strong business results in the quarter ending August 2022, Oracle's revenue grew 18% year-over-year to €11,400 billion, while its net profit increased 14% to €1,500 billion according to its latest report (opens in new tab ).