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ThatвЂ™s a relatively large amount of money! But what I find really interesting is the proportion that goes to the database vendor compared to the proportion that is spent on hardware:

discounting TCO-type calculations like power, cooling, etc) is now up at ВЈ1.8m.

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The total cost over three years, just for hardware, software and support (i.e.

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WeвЂ™re looking at the three-year price and, as always, the maintenance costs us 22% of the net license cost.В IвЂ™m including the Oracle Diagnostics Pack ($5k per core) in the license cost too вЂ“ surely nobody can cope without it these days? WeвЂ™ll also assume that in buying the licenses we got a 60% discount. It will have 4 nodes (16 cores per node) and 20TB of usable disk storage. LetвЂ™s state some assumptions for this imaginary Oracle RAC cluster we are building.

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DonвЂ™t forget that OracleвЂ™s core multiplication factor table determines that we need to multiply these costs by 0.5 for Intel Xeon processors, which is what IвЂ™m using in this example (see the first article in this series if you donвЂ™t know what this means). In general, RAC is a feature of Oracle Enterprise Edition вЂ“ in fact looking at the prices on the Oracle Store as I write this itвЂ™s the joint-most-expensive option (along with Oracle OLAP) priced at $23k per core (list)вЂ¦ If you consider that the Enterprise Edition license is $47.5k per core then thatвЂ™s nearly half as much again. The price goes up as the license cost increases, but it also goes up in multiples as the architecture scales out to multiple nodes. There are two reasons why RAC can be expensive, or to put it another way two dimensions. ErвЂ¦ okвЂ¦ I think IвЂ™ve made my thoughts clear on this before.

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But hey, technically it wasnвЂ™t a full outage so the SLAs werenвЂ™t affected. Ok, so you have to bounce a whole set of application servers. Sure, you get a whole load of users that get kicked off. Yet everyone in the RAC game lives with the same shared deception: that losing a whole node does not count as a service outage. Plus, adding a whole raft of cluster functionality such as cache coherence, cluster filesystems and cluster ready services is just adding complexity, which is the enemy of availability. Of course, If you look at it another way (as I do), increasing the number of nodes is actually increasing the risk of failure to a single node. Yes, Oracle RAC allows you to run one database across multiple nodes so if you look at it the right way thatвЂ™s increasing system availability. However, Oracle knows a thing or two about staying at the top, so OPS became Real Application Servers and the scalability marketing message got overtaken by a new claim: high availability. Scaling up to 80 cores in a server is not unusual, so the need for a software scalability solution is less strong than it was. The days of big iron RISC systems seem long ago and nowadays (comparatively) cheap multicore x86 hardware is the norm.

However, things change вЂ“ and nowhere more so than in IT. If you never used OPS in anger you should ask some of the grizzled, battle-scarred veterans who did how they fared against it, but at least in theory it allowed customers to scale out when scaling up wasnвЂ™t really possible. Oracle recognised this scalability issue and built a software solution for it, initially called Oracle Parallel Server (OPS). Many people ran Oracle on RISC-based UNIX systems, which had limited scalability in terms of the number of CPU cores and the maximum amount of physical memory. There was a time, long ago, when big servers were very expensive. I also want to show you a little-known trick that can allow you to build a two-node fully active/active RAC cluster for a fraction of the price you would normally expect to pay.Д«ut first, letвЂ™s talk about RACвЂ¦ Oracle RAC: High Availability For the Masses And in this article I want to cover the great granddaddy of Oracle licenses costs: Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). My motive was a concern that many people working either directly or indirectly with database software are uninformed about just how expensive it is вЂ“ particularly in comparison to the cost of hardware.

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Storage for DBAs: In my previous article (in this mini-series on database economics) I explained how to calculate the cost of a mid-range Oracle database system.

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