Devart dotConnect vs. IP2Location

dotConnect for MySQL is suitable if you work with .net technologies and frameworks to develop applications but do not want to use SQL Server. This is a very common scenario and the Express edition can solve this problem if you need only basic connectivity features. If high performance is a crucial requirement for you, it may be a real concern. Maybe paid editions can deliver better performance, but you will need to deal with relevant costs.

Incentivized

I have described our usage scenario previously

• Easy to use, client report-friendly
• Easy integration when accessing multiple SQL servers on the client side
• Pulls/connects easily from any application

Incentivized

• Free demo
• Quite complete database
• Customer service

Incentivized

• Better troubleshooting for errors in Visual Studio integration mode
• Improvements in performance
• Documentation could be better

Incentivized

• We want to know IP ranges too so that we can block the whole IP range if we want.

We had been using an outsourced company for such projects until we decided to hire our own team and do all of this DB work in-house. So this was our first year of experience with this product. So far, we're very pleased, as are our clients.

Incentivized

Based on my experiences IP2Location is the best of those which ones I've already tried.

Incentivized

• Low-cost product for basic connectivity features
• Allows us to deliver applications for clients that requires MySQL as a database
• Allows us keep using our development tools and IDE due to integration capabilities (mainly Visual Studio)
• Easy to use

Incentivized

• user satisfaction
• data completeness
• speed+