Can you give more parameters for what something needs to qualify for your definition of "modern"?
The database harkens back to when computers were new. There's a ton of money that goes into continued development of it, and is vertically integrated, including custom hardware and the software to run it. It's extremely expensive hardware - they still sell SPARC servers, running Solaris if that's what you want (but they do also support a custom Linux kernel for their hardware).
It's such a high end niche that there's only a handful of companies that can even run the benchmark competitively because it just costs so much in hardware to play at that level, which makes it very opaque unless you're fluent in a lot of terms, some of them proprietary, others not. Eg https://blogs.oracle.com/exadata/post/exadata-uses-persisten... it's an absolutely fascinating journey into getting better SQL performance that involves some really high end shit, and (like kubernetes) most of the people out there just don't play in the same league. Which isn't a judgement against them and their needs, but it costs a lot of resources to wring microseconds more performance from a multi-million dollar machine. An AWS EC2 cloud VM, this ain't.
The database harkens back to when computers were new. There's a ton of money that goes into continued development of it, and is vertically integrated, including custom hardware and the software to run it. It's extremely expensive hardware - they still sell SPARC servers, running Solaris if that's what you want (but they do also support a custom Linux kernel for their hardware).
It's such a high end niche that there's only a handful of companies that can even run the benchmark competitively because it just costs so much in hardware to play at that level, which makes it very opaque unless you're fluent in a lot of terms, some of them proprietary, others not. Eg https://blogs.oracle.com/exadata/post/exadata-uses-persisten... it's an absolutely fascinating journey into getting better SQL performance that involves some really high end shit, and (like kubernetes) most of the people out there just don't play in the same league. Which isn't a judgement against them and their needs, but it costs a lot of resources to wring microseconds more performance from a multi-million dollar machine. An AWS EC2 cloud VM, this ain't.