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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The most obvious reason is that excel is pretty limited in the amount of rows you can have. It is also a visual representation of the information which isn’t necessary. Databases handle traffic from multiple users better. Databases utilize indexes to make accessing data faster and more efficient. The list goes on.