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MySQL Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives
MySQL FAQs
Q. Who are the typical users of MySQL?
Q. What languages does MySQL support?
MySQL supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
MySQL product overview
What is MySQL?
MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) designed to help businesses record, update, and manage data and deploy cloud-native applications. Features include data masking and de-identification, multi-document transaction support, intrusion detection, alerts, and configuration management.
Key benefits of using MySQL
Reliability: MySQL is one of the most mature and widely used databases. It has been tested in a wide variety of scenarios for more than 25 years, including by many of the world’s largest companies. Organizations depend on MySQL to run business-critical applications because of its reliability.
Scalability: MySQL scales to meet the demands of the most accessed applications. MySQL’s native replication architecture enables organizations such as Facebook to scale applications to support billions of users.
Performance: MySQL HeatWave is faster and less expensive than other database services, as demonstrated by multiple standard industry benchmarks, including TPC-H, TPC-DS, and CH-benCHmark.
High availability: MySQL delivers a complete set of native, fully integrated replication technologies for high availability and disaster recovery. For business-critical applications, and to meet service-level agreement commitments, customers can achieve Recovery point objective = 0 (zero data loss) and Recovery time objective = seconds (automatic failover)
Security: Data security entails protection and compliance with industry and government regulations, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Security Technical Implementation Guides. MySQL Enterprise Edition provides advanced security features, including authentication/ authorization, transparent data encryption, auditing, data masking, and a database firewall.
Flexibility: The MySQL Document Store gives users maximum flexibility in developing traditional SQL and NoSQL schema-free database applications. Developers can mix and match relational data and JSON documents in the same database and application.
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Frank B.
EVP
Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees
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David Z.
Software Engineer
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
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Filipe F.
Information Technology and Services, self-employed
Used daily for 2+ years
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With MySQL i can sell more software because I can sell cheaper, and the performance is the same than others
MySQL is a great to database and is very very powerfull I use it everyday on my work when I develop web applications for my clients MySQL is reliable and have some great admistration tools with great value MySQL works very good and uses less system resources than other similar softwares
MySQL have all that I need to do my work perfect with less cost than others similar softwares MySQL works great for web applications, with good performance
Mounir M.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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Strong in the field of databases in the first place, despite the presence of many programssuitable for large projects
Not a suitable option for beginnersThe graphical interface is primitive
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.
Toby J.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I'm grateful to mysql as it's free - but I feel like it's had it's day as a database, and there's better open source options out there.
Mysql is easy to set up, as things like access controls are generally very simple. Thought that benefit is quickly lost if you need more complex controls. There's a couple of nice features about the mysql syntax that I like - e.g. being able to insert and update using the SET command.
Having using postgres and mysql in parallel on two similar applications, I regularly wish we'd migrated out of mysql years ago. Postgres is a little harder to set up, but then it works. I can't think of a time when I've had to go trawling through internet forums or manuals trying to explain some weird database bug. Mysql on the other hand frequently introduces it's own strange little bugs into the mix, which we've had to work around.
Erick R.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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My experience with MySQL has been very good. I have been able to create powerful software that takes advantage of the main feature of MySQL.
Free, easy to install and configure, good support of many programming languages and a big community. The documentation is very detailed.
Lower perfomance than other database options, the monitoring feature can be improved and the configuration for distributed databases should be easier to set
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