We compared Teradata and MySQL based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Teradata stands out for its powerful analytics, scalability, and security features, while users appreciate its thorough customer support. On the other hand, MySQL is praised for its efficiency in managing data, user-friendly interface, and strong performance. While both have positive ROI, Teradata requires improvements in speed and user interface, while MySQL needs enhancements in performance optimization and documentation.
Features: Teradata's valuable features include powerful analytics, scalability, efficient data management, reliable performance, robust security, easy integration, user-friendly interface, and extensive support. MySQL, on the other hand, boasts efficient data handling, strong performance, compatibility, ease of use, flexibility, and robust security measures.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Teradata is mentioned to be minimal, allowing for a smooth implementation process. On the other hand, MySQL is praised for its affordable setup cost. Both products offer flexible pricing and licensing options to cater to different business needs., Teradata's ROI is significant, with users benefiting from improved data management and informed decision-making. MySQL also has a positive ROI, praised for its reliability, cost-effectiveness, scalability, and community support.
Room for Improvement: Teradata product has room for improvement in areas such as performance, user interface, workflow, and support resources. In comparison, MySQL needs enhancements in performance, documentation, support, scalability, compatibility, and security features.
Deployment and customer support: User reviews for Teradata indicate varying experiences and time requirements for the deployment, setup, or implementation phases. In contrast, with MySQL, some users reported several months for deployment and an additional week for setup, while others mentioned both processes taking only a week in total., Teradata's customer service focuses on addressing needs and resolving issues, while MySQL's support team is praised for their prompt, helpful, and knowledgeable assistance, offering efficient solutions with clear and effective communication.
The summary above is based on 45 interviews we conducted recently with Teradata and MySQL users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"One of the most valuable features is MySQL's ability to run our email system. We use a system called Colab."
"It is very easy to install and has all basic database features."
"What I've been most pleased with is the cost point, performance, and ease of use."
"I use MySQL for employee service in an OLTP database."
"It has a community version. When I have to create a new database, I have no problems with licenses."
"The installation process for the most scalable solution is remarkably quick, taking only a short amount of time."
"One of the best features is this solution is easy to use."
"Support for enterprise-grade features like clustering, master-slave replication, even Sharding (to some extent) which is an advanced feature."
"It has reduced a lot of reworking on maintaining indexes, partitions, etc."
"The two types of partitioning have been very significant for us - row and columnar partitioning."
"Improved performance of ETL procedures, reporting."
"It's a pre-configured appliance that requires very little in terms of setting-up."
"Designing the database is easy."
"Teradata's capabilities enhance data management efficiency, support scalability, and contribute to faster query performance."
"Teradata can be deployed on-premise, on the cloud, or in a virtual machine, which means customers can move without having to create their architecture all over again."
"The feature that we find most valuable is its ability to perform Massive Parallel Processing."
"The manuals or documentation could be better."
"They should come up with a better solution than the NDB cluster for better scaling. If they could come up with a better solution for write scaling, apart from the NDB cluster, which is supported by all open source communities, that would be great. Although the NDB cluster, I believe, is an open-source tool, it's not widely supported as a solution."
"The only service which could be improved is its usability. The entire user experience needs to be revamped to meet the 2018 design standards."
"It does not stand out regarding scalability. When the company size increases, the user base having actual experience with (very) large MySQL solutions is reduced."
"Scalability could be improved."
"If the customer is already using or has already used Oracle for a long time they will know the look and feel and the character of this database that can fit into their business."
"The solution could have better integration and security features."
"The solution is expensive."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"Teradata is an expensive tool. Like, if you're already using Microsoft products like Windows, they'll market all their products together. And with the rise of cloud technologies, companies will adopt solutions that offer them some privileges or facilities. Similar to how SAP does it in the market, so do Microsoft and other companies. Even Oracle and other such tools are quite commonly seen compared to Teradata's competitors in everyday solutions."
"I think the UI is not there yet. It could be improved by being more user-friendly."
"The solution could improve by having a cloud version or a cloud component. We have to use other solutions, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Snowflake for the cloud."
"Teradata hardly supports unstructured data or semi-structured data"
"Teradata's pricing is quite high compared to Redshift, Synapse, or GCP alternatives."
"Sometimes the large injestion takes days to load data, and some of our stored procedures take two to three days."
"The setup is not straightforward."
MySQL is ranked 4th in Relational Databases Tools with 142 reviews while Teradata is ranked 7th in Relational Databases Tools with 54 reviews. MySQL is rated 8.2, while Teradata is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MySQL writes "Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SAP HANA and SQL Server, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle Exadata, BigQuery and IBM Db2 Database. See our MySQL vs. Teradata report.
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