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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Excel is not a database program and should not be used as one.

You can force it to do whatever you want but it won’t be good at it. They sell Access if you want a database program

Databases are far far more efficient at storing and more importantly, quickly accessing information

Making your own database and making a database that runs well and isn’t riddled with security issues are two very different things. People pay Amazon/Microsoft/Oracle/Apache/etc to buy a database software that is more efficient and secure than they could make for the same cost