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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/25/2020

"MYSQL: Great to use, but very buggy at times (depending on which version you are on.)"

3.5/5

What do you like best about MySQL?

Simple interface, ease of use UI and at times somewhat user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL?

The program at times crashes randomly and it does not provide a clear explanation on how or why it crashed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Edwin F.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/13/2020

"Free database with a lot of potential"

5/5

What do you like best about MySQL?

MySQL is a free and open source database manager. Its installation is fast and we can find it merged with other software such as XAMP or WAMP. The main advantage is that it behaves like the rest of SQL databases in general, but its storage capacity as information increases is significantly reduced. Another advantage of MySQL is that it connects to almost all programming languages, since being free is a very good option to test in development and avoid buying licenses that are not necessary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL?

It is very limited in high availability aspects and in handling large volumes of information without taking into account the techniques that can help to better manage the information. I do not like that your official site redirects to the Oracle page, although you are the owner of MySQL, I think you should provide both the ODBC and the database installer from the same website without the need to redirect us to the manufacturer page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MySQL:

Try MySQL for your developments, it is a free option and easy to implement. You can do different tests to see what its maximum performance is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has helped me connect various programming languages to have my data persistence layer. I have used it with C ++, C #, Java, Python, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS. Its operation is very good and very fast. It does not need large configurations to more than one user with permissions and password. Its connection is very transparent and its performance is very good in a development environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Senando B.

Managent information system

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/17/2019

"Free and Friendly User Database"

5/5

What do you like best about MySQL?

The most i like in mysql database is aside for having community edition that is free to explore for developers like us the GUI is friendly user its not hard to understand the features and easy to create schema and tables. You can also import and export data from excel for convenient use for data analysis, reporting and marketing strategies. There is also security features for admin to avoid hacking. There have also a lot of tutorial online that will help you as a beginner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL?

I will say it's not dislike feature but to enhance it further to make it online database so every where a developer can access data on it. Its a good practice right know since we are on age of technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MySQL:

As far as experience mysql is one of the best open source database that is fit for software developers because for being friendly user and having a lot of tutorials or reference that will helps us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem i solve using mysql is making database for our payroll system, computer inventory, etc together with microsoft visual studio. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

William S.

William Sikkens

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/15/2020

"MySQL is a great open source and widely supported database solution"

4.5/5

What do you like best about MySQL?

MySQL can be easily installed on a local server or workstation instance for testing. The same product also works for enterprise level deployment and is supported by many online cloud services including AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL?

If you know T-SQL (Microsoft) there are some commands that aren't standard such as update. It is necessary to relearn the environment to be able to fully use the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankur G.

Ankur

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/13/2020

"Most light weight database."

5/5

What do you like best about MySQL?

Light weight, takes less space, can be used for any application, with new workbench it's even easier to use even for a person with limited knowledge of DB. you don't have to remember all the queries now because of that.It makes our life easier for taking data dump or execute data migration projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL?

doesn't have inbuilt integration tool where as few other DB support that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MySQL:

I definitely recommend to use mysql if your organization is mid size or under small category. However, MYSQL can handle heavy duty operation like any other Database in the market in your day to day operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use MYSQL for our internal database, also use it as a data store to upload data for data migration projects. as it's light weight it takes less space in our server. We maintain our entire user details in mysql along with that our entire Database schema is designed on mysql. you can completely restructure your query in mysql.

As you optimize problematic queries, your goal should be to find alternative ways to get the result you want—but that doesn’t necessarily mean getting the same result set back from MySQL. You can sometimes transform queries into equivalent forms and get better performance. However, you should also think about rewriting the query to retrieve different results, if that provides an efficiency benefit. You may be able to ultimately do the same work by changing the application code as well as the query. In this section, we explain techniques that can help you restructure a wide range of queries and show you when to use each technique. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/2/2020

"InnoDB of MySQL"

4/5

What do you like best about MySQL?

InnoDB which has the better features for Row Lock. Compared with MyIASM which is using Table Lock, which is more efficient for large scale of dataload. And others still can access to read data and materials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL?

InnoDB did not preserve the number of rows of the table. It caused the massive SELECT * query would spend quite a lot of time.

Also not support FULLTEXT search that limited the application usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MySQL:

Other than community version, subscribe with enterprise version should get better feedback and updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you?

Compared with Oracle DB, MySQL is light weight, relatively cheaper and easy installation on any VM or bare metals.

And MySQL is one of the cloud native DB which Oracle DB still is a bit difficult to support in cloud platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/26/2020

"MySQL"

3.5/5

What do you like best about MySQL?

MySQL is not open source anymore in the spirit of FOSS, but it is still an openly configurable DBMS. Proprietary packages like Oracle are very difficult e learn and they like it that way. Oracle has a practice of their salesmen telling you that you can use it in ways that aren't legal, then after you install and migrate to it they send another crew to tell you that you're in violation of the licensing agreement and pay up or get sued. I've seen this extortion happen many times enough to know that it's intentional.

The MariaDB version of MySQL is what I trust. Maybe more work but less hidden hassles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL?

It tends to have issues with large databases, i.e. > 100GB, with replication failing for strange reasons and needing to be restarted again. Also, you can get into trouble if you don't design your tables correctly. You can't have 5 years of sales records in a huge table and expect to have a dozen indexed fields without serious delays while writing records. Use the views to aggregate a few monthly tables at a time to view records with, and then write to the current month's table only. You don't want to write to a table that has 100,000 records in it with 20 indexes to update as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MySQL:

Use free software if you can. Proprietary software in general has more headaches for administrators than free software. There is more work involved but there are no hidden feature gaps to make you pay even more than you expected to. Oracle is famous for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you?

MySQL can be used in applications obviously, but it is useful as a standalone tool for big data applications as well. It is faster than PostGreSQL on reads without transactions which makes it ideal for manipulating huge tables of data from the SQL command line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/20/2020

"Great tool for Medium sized Businesses"

4/5

What do you like best about MySQL?

Easily Manageable

Easy to learn for a beginner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL?

Restrictions on Table Sizes and Schemes

Tuning is somewhat complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jorge C.

Consultor

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/11/2020

"Our preferred database for relational data"

5/5

What do you like best about MySQL?

MySQL Workbench as and extremelly intuitive tool for database administration, modeling and database server configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL?

Nothing in particular. MySQL meets the majority of our requeriments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zankhana S.

App System Engineer Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/27/2020

"Convenient open source database"

4.5/5

What do you like best about MySQL?

I have been recently start using MY SQL .

it is Easy to learn, use and manage.

it's query speed is fast compare to others and very stable structure of database

it is open source so available easily and and setup easily and low in cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL?

Limited capabilities for stored procedures.

backup takes more time

it does not support for data transfer between database and distributed file system

database design need to be improve, if someone new that require prior knowledge compare to other relational database but overall experience is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.