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Bolade A.
Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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Mysql is my preferred platform
first off, the availability of MySQL across multiple platforms is why i love it . Mysql has a great interface and its user friendly. Easy to export the sql dump and import into another mysql installation. Likewise the fact that it is free makes it very popular on many systems
There are some syntax compatibility issues with MariaDB when trying to use their sql dump on either platforms
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Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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The Google BigQuery feature is the most precious tool in the platform. It can perform queries on a database that is several TB's in storage in a matter of seconds and minutes. It can perform join operations on huge datasets, editing schemas is very easy, no painful migration processes.
Does have some weird constraints like, columns names should have not spaces, number precision requirement, and does not provide every single feature as that of PostgreSQL or MySQL.
Ravikiran R.
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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Best suitable for who like to migrate to cloud and moving towards into Serverless implementations to reduce the cost
Best NoSQL supported databased which can be scaled very easy Good SQL supported databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL databased which can be scaled and highly secure Great support for IoT
It would be good Google Cloud Platform also comes with AWS IAM kind of role management. Some times feels like it is more complex than AWS
Pavan N.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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The ability to provision a postgres/mysql deployment in the cloud with just a few clicks is a valuable feature for businesses that rely on databases to manage their data. This feature enables businesses to quickly and easily deploy the same database that would normally be on-premises in a cloud environment, providing greater flexibility and scalability. This feature also benefits third-party tools that require a database, as it allows for seamless integration and interaction.
It's true that compared to other data solutions in the ecosystem, Google Cloud SQL may not have the highest performance capabilities. However, it still provides reliable and scalable database services that meet the needs of many businesses.
Onur İlyas T.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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+ Strong community support+ Open-source+ Cross-platform and cloud support (Linux, Windows, MacOS, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)+ Custom functions+ Easy to use and deploy
- InnoDB limitations- Support for complex data types is comparatively more limited than certain other database systems.
Arunabho B.
Computer Networking, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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Good
Has a couple of powerful features inspite of being much lighter than its alternatives. Has a very streamlined GUI.
Lacks integrated cloud save features unlike Microsoft Access
Judith K.
Information Technology and Services, self-employed
Used weekly for 2+ years
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Its so easy to create a database using MySQL, I like using it anytime I create a database.
Migrating the database into the cloud is sometimes hard to implement.
Sasitha P.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
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use workbench to connect with my mysql cloud
provide to have connections with multiple servers
there are two execute buttons to execute query. but sometimes be confuse to use which button
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Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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We use it In several Mobile app in the server side via APIs.
Easy of use, comprehensive set of features, strong community, on premisses and cloud availability in several cloud providers.
The Workbench tool could be more powerful, have a better UI and maybe have a web version and could have monitoring console.
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Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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Overall experience is good its not so shabby it was the first database i learned still i love using it no matter what.
In mysql we can use traditional queries and it has huge community support so there is not problem that you will face and you wouldnt find an answer.
Its should provide new interface and new features as the millennia is of cloud services.
Rushikesh P.
Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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1.8 years of experience using free and paid version at organization level.
mysql interface is easy use to use a backend developer, responsible to creation tables via hibernate. sometimes existing queries modified, quick response
there should PLSQL features now a days adopted by Oracle databases and cloud owned by mysql
Ajmal S.
Nonprofit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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I love it since it is open-source, available on the cloud like AWS.
MySQL provides me with the best database solutions on Amazon Web Services. I provides open-source support and it is recommended for small size organizations and business.
MySQL is a non-relational database solution, so it is not recommended if you are dealing with a high-level relational database.
Pedro P.
E-Learning, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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an open-source which can work with a cloud.
The views in MYSQL are sometimes useless
Krishnam M.
Consumer Electronics, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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A good db which enables users to meet db challenges and with cloud capability
Connection loss is very common prob, then out of memory issue
Sarvesh G.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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MySQL has been the goto RDBMS for quick prototyping in use cases for web, cloud or large data sets experimentation.
Designing data model is a breeze with MySQL. There are so many options for sql client tools. Equally effective for hosting on-premise or any cloud environment.
Companies moved away to MariaDB after acquisition by Oracle. Can be more feature rich like postgresql.
Parth P.
Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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It is an extraordinary item. It very well may be utilized with many sorts of web applications. In any case, it isn't reasonable for information investigation. We are utilizing it with an IoT-based ERP framework. In the event that in case you choose to move to cloud, prophet offers full help to utilize MySQL as a cloud information base assistance.
Overall is that it is extremely simple to code in, the coding is exceptionally straight forward. It's proficiency to hold enormous datasets in type of very much oversaw tables lines and sections structure. It's not difficult to design and make due. It is an extraordinary answer for an endeavor level DB with less expense. Proficient utilization of assets at the memory and CPU level Cross-stage support for various working frameworks
Absence of documentation for a huge level of MySQL utilities, for instance the part of information replication for specific cases there is no documentation. Some experience is needed to arrange and tune it to the undertaking prerequisites. Support for non-social information will be an additional benefit Security refreshes are not so regular
Feynman L.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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MySQL (now MariaDB for the non-Oracle version) is super popular, so it's easy to find compatible frameworks and there is a good supply of database administrators.
Sometimes cloud providers (e.g. GCP) only offer older versions of MySQL which don't have the features we need, so we need to stand up our own instances or use an alternative DB.
Marco F.
Pharmaceuticals, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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As Finance manager I led a project to develop a web-based system to share payroll receipts to thousands employees in our factory. For that purpose we built some kiosks with printers embedded (client-side) and a Linux server running a cloud platform. MySQL engine has been the best solution to run the cloud system and store thousands payroll records per week, and allows a secure encrypted access through kiosk terminals.
Most valuable features: - High compatibility with most web-based open-source platforms, like CMS, clouds, e-commerce, blogs. - State of the art of SQL language - Highly intuitive admin interface for almost every task - Can be host on cloud or on-premise in your local infrastructure
MySQL is not for everybody, to be used proficiently you need some knowledge about DB architecture, SQL syntax for queries, and admin skills to properly set privileges. Despite that, most of open-source platforms that use MySQL to store data include automatic setup in their install routines.
Clinton C.
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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If you know how to use SQL, then this software is for you. I like the ability to access the cloud and automated service.
I understand that this software is pretty simple to use, but you should have an understanding as to how SQL works. A solid base of how to work the programming is helpful.
Nikhil K.
Computer Software, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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it is open source, very good community support. built for, web cloud and bigdata. provides good user interface. integrates easily with web engines, apache.
has some stability issues. could improve large database size. relaxing the syntax constraints would be nice. one needs to learn sql language to use it.
Ahmed S.
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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My overall experience with MySQL is fantastic, it is extremely reliable and fast, it's supported out of the box by all major cloud providers, and the support is top notch.
MySQL is excellent relational-database system, it is feature rich and has great community support. It can be relied on from the smallest to the largest projects.
Tooling from some of the basic functions such as backup and restore are not easily integrated out of the box.
Suraj S.
Industrial Automation, 10,001+ employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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MySQL is open source database management tool. The innovations are nor more user friendly and competitive. its made for the coming age web, cloud technology database.
Its not a community based database system so lacks the continuous improvement as per users. Doesn't have enough debugging tool as that of competitors.
Richard R.
Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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A good fully functioning database engine. I quite like it!
Quite easy to deploy on Linux. Combined with MyPHPadmin you get a fully functioning database engine. Good performance.
Some of the error messages are difficult to understand. Google does a decent job of putting them into English!
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Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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I found MySQL reliable, robust and traditional database system and overall a good choice for the organisations looking for managing the data.
MySQL is one of the most popular and extensively used RDBMS among a lot of organisations even today. It provides faster query time and indexing features to query millions of records in quick time. It also provides a GUI client and command line interface with its own set of commands to perform various operations on databases and tables. It is one of the most reliable and tested database engine over time.
MySQL has been traditionally used as RDBMS and facing a huge competition with cloud based database providers, big data and in-memory databases. A lot of organisations are looking for alternatives to MySQL due to its traditional way of storing and querying the data. MySQL should expand its services more on the cloud providers and also should ease the steps required for installing and administrating the software which consumes a lot of time for the developers and users of MySQL. The GUI client could be made more user-friendly as well.
Jeff G.
Wholesale, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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MySQL is the "backend" for much of the software on my home Pi server. It just keeps working.
Free database software; what could be better? I've used this at home for years; it's installed on my Raspberry Pi web/email/cloud storage server. Couldn't be happier with it!
Nothing, and I mean nothing! MySQL has been solid for years and years, and continues to serve me well. Newer Linux databases have arrived on the scene, but MySQL is still a very, very solid choice.
Deepak M.
Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I have use MySql a lot for small projects, and light weight web applications.Its easy to interact and implement. A cloud version of mysql "Amazon Aurora" in AWS gives very reliable and scalable RDBMS features is worth looking into
1. Open-source RDMS, also available in Amazon Web Services. 2. Easy to learn and implement, less complexity in installation and maintenance. 3. Cross Platform compatibility like Mac, Windows and Linux, 4. Command line operations are easy to perform, also MSSql Workbench software which is availble on mysql website helps a lotin gaining good insights and manage the mysql database and track realtime metrics like storage , RAM usage, queries per second, connections etc.
1. For large data or concurrent operations, it takes a performance hit, and over utilization of resources ,in such cases it is not as reliable as compared to Oracle or MS SQL Server. 2. Full fledge stored procedure functionality not available compared to other databases like Postgresql. 3. Also Scalability is a concern.
Prasun P.
Education Management, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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MySQL is very compatible with almost all types of cloud service providers. We can use it for free because it is open source. So, I will recommend everyone to use it. The overall experience of mine with this software is really nice.
MySQL is very reliable when it comes to a relational database management system. It is one of the most popular among all of the Database management systems out there. It is higly Integrated and provides a high performance. It is fully managed and we can use it to build any cloud native applications.
MySQL is very favourite to me. I personally haven't found any cons of this database since I love working with Relational Databases.
Luká S.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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We are using MySQL mainly with our WordPress installations and it has been great so far without any major problems.
MySQL is easy to setup and with cloud options the costs of building and maintaining your own infrastructure are a thing of the past. Awesome documentation makes it easy to start using MySQL for any newcomer.
Few settings are a bit obscure (switching from using a disk to mainly using RAM).
Nigel Masimba R.
Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I use MySQL with a popular content management system, and it has never, in any way let me down. Our CMS has custom database query commands, so I hardly ever have create my own queries. Even when I do manually write queries I have access to years of documentation to help me along.
MySQL is a robust, well document, secure, and interoperable database system software. Almost everyone, all the way down from the vast majority of cheap shared hosting providers up to enterprise cloud hosting providers has support for MySQL databases. I don't need to know how to write queries to use it as there are a number of visual tools to write and execute queries. It is scalable. A project can start small on a single server and grow huge to work in a distributed cloud ecosystem.
Learning MySQL is a steep learning curve however you don't have to learn it in most cases as there are frameworks, and visual tools that create MySQL queries for you.