MySQL vs. Sequel Pro

MySQL

971 Reviews and Ratings

Sequel Pro

33 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
MySQL	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	MySQL is a popular open-source relational and embedded database, now owned by Oracle.	N/A
Sequel Pro	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Sequel Pro is a relational database software solution offered free and open source. It allows users to access any MySQL database through a Mac.	$0

Pricing

MySQL

Sequel Pro

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Pricing Offerings
MySQL	Sequel Pro
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	MySQL	Sequel Pro
Considered Both Products	Oracle 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? Verified User Chose MySQL No other free tool allows as much power over database communication as MySQL does. For 99% of use cases out there, MySQL is easily the best tool in the market, not only in terms of cost but also measuring its capabilities alone. It is the most obvious choice for a tool. Incentivized Helpful?	Open Source Verified User Chose Sequel Pro MySQL workbench is good to work with MySQL databases, but Sequel Pro gives us the ability to work with any SQL databases. It's open-source, lightweight and solves the problem that I am required to solve to run the DDL and DML queries. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sequel Pro I've only ever used MySQL commandline (haven't tried any other GUIs for sql). Though I like Sequel Pro a lot, I just prefer using the terminal when doing DBA stuff on production databases because I can be sure of the commands I execute. For the test environment, and development … Incentivized Helpful? Anand Chhatpar CTO in Engineering at Growth Champ, a service by Fame Express LLC (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Sequel Pro Sequel Pro has a fully functional free version which is fast and unlimited. None of the others let you get to your data as quickly and directly as Sequel Pro does. With the exception of the default tools provided by MySQL, Sequel Pro is probably the client that remains most up … Incentivized Helpful? Joey Yax Web Developer in Engineering at Grady Britton (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Sequel Pro Free is a huge selling point, but beyond that it's secure, powerful and easy to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sequel Pro The UI design of Sequel Pro is to help people whose work is not typical coding heavy but still data dependent. It stands out for its target users. Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Randolph Analyst in Social Media at VaynerMedia (Marketing and Advertising, 501-1000 employees) Chose Sequel Pro Amazingly full-featured for a free MySQL client. Met all the requirements for our team. Free & for Mac OS X. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	MySQL	Sequel Pro
Likelihood to Recommend	9.3 (135 ratings)	8.4 (12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.9 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (7 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (2 ratings)	7.5 (3 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)