MySQL Reviews

We use this solution for billing, accounting, and data analysis.

The most valuable feature is the ease of use.

The manuals or documentation could be better.

I have been using MySQL for ten years.

We are using version 8.

We do not have any issues with the stability of MySQL.

For our needs, it's sufficient.

We have 10 users in our organization.

It has more than enough support available for our needs. There is plenty of support from the community.

We rely on the forums and other channels for help. It's pretty good at the moment.

The initial setup is straightforward.

The installation can take approximately an hour.

You need to be aware of databases to make use of it. You need a moderate level of competence.

We use the community edition.

There is no cost involved, no licensing fees.

We did not evaluate other products.

It's a good product for new startups.

I would rate MySQL a seven out of ten.

On-premises

It is the database for a web application. I am using it for personal and official purposes.

It is easy to use.

It is not as powerful as SQL Server. It can be more powerful.

It is not scalable and has certain limitations, which is not the case with SQL Server.

I have been using this solution for a couple of years.

It is stable.

It is not scalable. We have around 10 to 15 web developers who are currently using it.

I have not interacted with them.

Its installation is not very complex. It takes two hours.

I installed it on my own. We have four or five people for deployment and maintenance.

For the on-premise version, no license is required.

We plan to keep using this solution. I would rate MySQL a seven out of ten.

On-premises

• Compatibility
• Stability
• Maintenance

These are very important points to keep in mind while deploying consumer facing products, it has to work.

It’s been used as the main databases for a lot of the developments we have done.

As for special features it offers, I wouldn’t say there’s a key one, but I do appreciate the stability it has.

• Real-time
• Event driven results
• Geolocation data
• Non-text storage

Over five years now.

No, I’d say this is the best.

It’s not easy to scale horizontally, don’t think it was ever meant for it. Lacks ease of installation and continuous usage.

Not applicable.

No, in fact, I switched away from it in new developments.

It’s very straightforward, really easy to install. Configuration is easy to understand and to change.

Since Oracle bought MySQL, I’ve seen a slow development. I would recommend the community server if you have to have MySQL, but I wouldn’t license or purchase it.

PostgreSQL.

MySQL is very flexible, has excellent performance, and it's simple to use.

Once we needed to use a database to distribute a product for my company and we chose MySQL, it was easy to use and it is very small, but powerful.

Maybe the way to build clusters needs to be improved. They could also improve the installation process.

I been using MySQL for nearly seven years.

There were no stability issues.

There were some scalability issues.

I would give the technical support an eight out of 10 rating.

We did upgrade the version with improvements to the product.

The setup was complex in the cluster installation.

MySQL is one of the best database options. The Community version is great.

We used Oracle and SQL Server, but their prices and licensing were so expensive.

Using MySQL could be an excellent option for you.

This product’s most valuable feature to me is active-active (multi-master) cluster support for MySQL.

We have been using the multi-master solution from the Percona cluster. It seems to work as expected.

We use it as an embedded component of a solution we sell. It has provided a low-cost, high-availability solution without complex active/standby management using Linux HA.

It should provide detailed debugging with transaction IDs at the application level to understand deadlocks, especially under bursty workloads.

It should also provide partitioned tables and a clustered index, like Oracle, to take advantage of inherent parallelisms in the application domain.

It does not scale well when there are concurrent requests. Making changes to binlog and transaction log settings improves scalability at the cost of reliability.

It has decent support.

This product’s active-active cluster feature was the reason for choosing it.

One of the reasons PostgreSQL was not considered – a decision taken before I joined the company - was its lack of mature multi-master cluster support. It also lacked other popular ports (e.g. MariaDB, Percona, etc. in MySQL).

Ensure that it meets your scaling needs, and has features for handling parallelism in the application.

At this time, pricing and footprint.

This database enabled us to web present our content in a cost efficient way.

I am not up to date on this issue.

At the time pricing and footprint.

This was the IT consultant's task to solve.

No issues encountered.

Not really, as our DB was small. With time, we got version issues, as our DB engine was so old and not updated.

Customer Service:

I've never used it.

Technical Support:

I've never used it.

No previous solution was used.

I don't know as we had consultants.

Consultant team.

We installed it under another now-obsolete license form (free on Linux).

No, as it was required for a CMS we implemented.

• Reliability
• Security
• Flexibility
• Functionality
• Availability - controllability anywhere and with different methods

MyISAM tables could be more reliable.

I've been using the Workbench Server for six years.

I have had no problems deploying it.

I have no stability problems.

I currently do not need to scale on my network.

Customer Service:

I only have the free version, which does not have customer service.

Technical Support:

I only have the free version, which does not have technical support.

We use Cisco ASA and Nagios devices alongside the MySQL server as our network infrastructure needs expanding and required more serious hardware solutions.

I believe it is hard to calculate for hardware.

I only use the free version.

We also looked at PostgreSQL.

As a rule, any device upon delivery is obsolete. Pick up the solution for your business, based on your specific needs.

• It is inexpensive as compared to other common databases like Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle. • MySQL is an extensible, open storage database engine that integrates seamlessly with a number of programming languages and other web-based technologies. • MYSQL is an open source system under the GNU General Public License. Developers can use it at no cost as long as the associated projects are also open-source. • Having excellent performance, MYSQL is used by many internet powerhouses like yahoo as their back-end database. MYSQL has great performance due to format of its default table, MyISAM. MyISAM databases use little disk space, memory and cpu. The system runs without flaw and perform better on all platforms including windows, Unix and Linux.

• MySQL has a limited storage capacity. It doesn’t support large databases. • Database transactions are not handled efficiently. • Unlike Oracle, MySQL doesn't have Tablespace, Role management, snapshots, synonym and packages. • For transferring data, MySQL doesn’t support other languages being executed from within the system, and neither does it supports XML. • Compared to Oracle, MySQL database does not support any feature like Audit Vault on its server • There is a limited scope and earning available for database administrator of MySQL.

MySQL is an open source database management system and is used by most of the most famous networking sites. It is more popular in websites and PHP integration. It can be executed under a number of operating systems like Linux, UNIX, Mac OS and Windows. MySQL supports ODBC interface which allows MySQL to be addressed by all the usual programming languages that run under Microsoft Windows.