After working with Oracle DB knowing the positive points of Oracle DB I would always give a + to Oracle but licensing cost is what made me do a research to find if My SQL would address our needs or do we really need to go for Oracle?
Oracle cost:
Standard edition:
License Cost: 17.5 K USD = 10,61,200 INR
Support Cost: 3850 USD = 233464 INR (Per year)
I did a bit of research and found most of our needs can be addressed by My SQL. Though Oracle gives more features that would be good to have that comes with high price tag.
Below URL could be helpful for us to have a discussion on this.
I am currently doing a research on different hosting vs in house implementation models. Would send a comparison. We need to brainstorm and decide at this point what is the model we should go for as it would be difficult to change the architecture later.
Suggestions and views welcome :) !!