Eli5: Why do companies use the products of Oracle to store information, when they can just use spreadsheets like Excel, or make their own spreadsheet software?

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I just can’t seem to comprehend how Oracle can be so wealthy off of making a database when it’s theoretically easy for a company to store its own information.

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Why are there restaurants if people can just use a microwave? Spreadsheets are good with reasonable amounts of data and not sophisticated data connectors to other systems. When you want to do analysis on gigabytes of data, when you have servers needing to not only report some data but also fetch customer data from all around the world, you have entered the realms of databases. When data needs to be entered by thousands of bots on servers each trying to fetch particular rows and update other rows you need way more that Janette taking phone calls to make changes.