MySQL

MySQL

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MySQL	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	MySQL is a popular open-source relational and embedded database, now owned by Oracle.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	Oracle Manidipa Kundu Data Analyst in Quality Assurance at Gfactors (Information Services, 11-50 employees) Chose MySQL Each of the products has its own merits and demerits. however since MySQL is a very good documentation and global community its easy to learn and apply in different stages for analytics work. compare to other data bases its simple for setup and work on it. MySQL is cost … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL Rest all the big brand databases incure high licensing cost giving almost the same value that MySQL is giving being an open source database. Other databases like Oracle, MS SQL servers need extensive resource along with a huge team to manage those databases. However, thats not … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL Selection of MySQL or Oracle SQL Developer depends on various factors like timelines, requirements, features and data volumes. We are using both MySQL and Oracle SQL Developer in our organization. MySQL is more suited for small applications with few thousand TPS and less users. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL We chose MySQL because of its open-source nature and its compatibility with various systems, languages, and databases. It is easy to use and fast. Additionally, it has been in the market for more than 30 years now which makes it a reliable option when compared to its … Incentivized Helpful? Calum Morrison IT Manager in Information Technology at Window Supply Company Ltd (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 51-200 employees) Chose MySQL Our original implementation of MySQL was to replace an Access database that had unfortunately been able to grow beyond its abilities and scope. MySQL seemed to offer all the benefits of Access (easy to set up, use and administer) with none of the downsides (reliability, … Incentivized Helpful? Starling Trinidad IT in Information Technology at PETROQUIM (Building Materials, 201-500 employees) Chose MySQL As I have been commenting in our company, we have solved our performance problems and responses obtaining speed in the queries occupies less disk space, in addition to its price and all the tools of great Scope it possesses. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL We let go SQL server as We don't want to use Windows server and bare the cost of Windows licensing. Incentivized Helpful? Kendal Droddy Senior System Engineer in Engineering at General Dynamics Information Technology (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees) Chose MySQL The primary reason we use MySQL instead of MongoDB is because we are in a large, legacy enterprise environment. MySQL works well and has all the necessary integrations with the various other software tools in our company's suite. Additionally, MySQL is a relational database … Incentivized Helpful? Rao Tahir DotNet Project Manager in Engineering at BookingWhizz (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees) Chose MySQL It was quite challenging to choose between these as they both have their pros and cons. But as far as we were concerned the decision to adopt the MYSQL database for our production was because it is an open-source language. This makes it very compatible with our needs and was … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL MySQL is open source and reduces development costs drastically. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL MongoDB has a dynamic schema for how data is stored in 'documents' whereas MySQL is more structured with tables, columns, and rows. MongoDB was built for high availability whereas MySQL can be a challenge when it comes to replication of the data and making everything redundant … Incentivized Helpful? Pablo Gonzalez Marketing Manager in Marketing at MKTi México (Marketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose MySQL MySQL works properly, it gives us the most efficient data and the organization of the data yields an unsurpassed result in performance. And in the same way, in our case as a company, we have users from different offices that are in the same line of work since they can share and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL I have evaluated MySQL Heatwave for some ETL pulls in our database to generate reports for stakeholders. It helped me to do so. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL Microsoft SQL and SQLite i have used for different scenarios. SQLite is very small database which is more easy to work with low profile devices like mobiles. MySQL is not suitable for that level and MSSQL mainly comparable with MYSQL. MSSQL has complex installations and … Incentivized Helpful? Rohit Goyal Senior Associate Technology in Information Technology at Publicis Sapient (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose MySQL So the main reason i would stack up Mysql from rest of the others is that it is open source which can be helpful for doing any POC on the products and learning new technologies and it is also compatible with all other softwares like Microsoft SQL serve and Postgre Sql Incentivized Helpful? John Ramírez Database Administrator in Information Technology at System Crew GmbH (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose MySQL Cost related, is the biggest advantage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL it is cost effective solution and that time we were looking the good RDMS which can support the GIS based datatypes. Its community edition is fantastic Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL Having used both PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server, I can tell that MySQL performs admirably in a Linux setting. When compared to Microsoft SQL Server, the extra benefit is the minimal or nonexistent licence fee. We find that MySQL's programming interface is particularly … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Huiatt Senior Information Technology Audit Manager in Information Technology at Solution Simple (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose MySQL Higher levels of security and can handle multiple connections simultaneously which is required for our clients work. It also supports XML format which we've had issues with SQLite handling - doesn't appear to support it. Incentivized Helpful? Alok Pabalkar Co-Founder & CTO in Research & Development at Mini Venture Lab Private Limited (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose MySQL SQLite - Is the goto DB for Mobile/Desktop Apps. Its not as elaborate as Mysql but since its a RDBMS it provides all the basic features and its lite. We use mysql at the backend and for desktop app we use SQLite postgres - Its a formidable opponent. It is fast and reliable and … Incentivized Helpful? Kees-Jan Koster Systems Developer in Information Technology at Christians Against Poverty (Non-profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees) Chose MySQL I would say that in a Linux environment MySQL works great compared to both PostgreSQL and MS SQL. The added benefit compared to MS SQL is the low or absent licensing cost. As we use it mainly from PHP the programming interface is great for MySQL. PostgreSQL has many of the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL MySQL is relatively easier to use and than PostgreSQL or SQL Server; it's also cheap to use in production compared to SQL Server. For a beginner who wants to ship something quickly, MySQL is really suited for it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL Before MySQL, our team was exploring and evaluating different options for a good RDMS (relational database management system) service. We explored Oracle, MSSQL, and Google BigQuery. Most of these are costly and not easy to maintain in the long run in terms of price especially … Incentivized Helpful? Alena Burda Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Orion Health (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose MySQL MySQL is the best platform and it has the ability to even automate time-consuming tasks with a fully managed database service that has enhanced productivity. This tool keeps me up to date about any new features and through instant provisioning it is providing me fast delivery … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	MySQL
Likelihood to Recommend	9.3 (135 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.9 (4 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)