That&#x27;s not an adequate comparison.  You&#x27;re comparing one simple solution to one complex solution.  The actual comparison is one complex solution to several thousand simple solutions.  What you&#x27;re comparing is running oracle on a grid of mainframes using some esoteric programming language compared to running about 2,500 MariaDB servers (based on comparisons of modern wind turbines to modern nuclear generators).  Oh, and that&#x27;s just for one site.  So you can manage a couple hundred unwieldy Oracle servers, or a quarter million MariaDB servers.