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What is MySQL?

MySQL is a popular open-source relational and embedded database, now owned by Oracle.

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Reliable and easy to use database

9 out of 10
November 20, 2023
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Product Details

What is MySQL?

MySQL is a popular open-source relational and embedded database, now owned by Oracle.

MySQL Videos

What is MySQL?
MySQL is one of the most popular database software options for businesses of all sizes. The software is open source, and highly customizable, so users can set up an instance that meets their needs.
While MySQL is a specific product, NoSQL is a type of database that includes a number of available products. Whether a NoSQL (nonrelational database) product or using MySQL (relational database) is right for you greatly depends on the data you are storing, queries, and flexibility.

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Frequently Asked Questions

MySQL is a popular open-source relational and embedded database, now owned by Oracle.

Microsoft Access, Google Cloud SQL, and Amazon Redshift are common alternatives for MySQL.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of MySQL are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • It is extremely easy to use.
  • It offers host based verification and password encryption which makes it very secure
  • It assures 24/7 uptime which is great relief for us
  • It lacks container types and arrays
  • It is prone to DDos attacks that slows down and possibly crashes the database
  • It is not built to tackle complex queries and huge datasets
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Storing data for long term storage
  • More Intutuitve Worbench than orcale sql workbench
  • Easy to Learn for a new Comer
  • Community Support is excellent
  • Old Battle Test TEch not like som enew software
  • The workbench is old caould use some impovement
  • Need support for different type of indexing
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Stable - it just runs, with minimal downtime or errors
  • Fast - well-structured data is quickly written and read
  • Secure - MySQL is easy to keep data secure from people and applications that shouldn't see it
  • Easy to use - SQL is industry standard so no problems with adding, editing and reading data stored in MySQL
  • Free it from Oracle's grasp! Bring back the old days...
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Great performance in our servers
  • fastly response in our system
  • takes up less disk space and db compre
  • I like because can be used in front of any query at the beginning with select, insert, replace, delete and update.
  • Also, it is a profiling tool for queries that shows information about where MySQL spends time on query.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Replication between instances is very spontaneous
  • Free and easy to install.
  • DB backup and restoration is easy.
  • excellent community support.
  • Tends to be getting Slow with large databases.
  • Unhelpful error messages.
Kendal Droddy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy integration with a wide variety of software tools
  • Ease of scalability as our capacity increases
  • Very fast and efficient searching
  • Could use enhancements to the debug tools
  • Not as efficient at very large database sizes
  • Not always as stable as I would prefer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • We use MySQL in the development of our Client specific E-COmmerce website, as it is an efficient and easy-to-manage System with a lot of features.
  • Backup and restore functions are really good so if anything goes wrong on client-server it is easy to restore our data.
  • A major drawback of MySQL is it cannot be used on large database sizes and slows down in such cases.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Security: is embedded at each level in MySQL. Authentication mechanisms are in place for configuring user access and even service account access to applications. MySQL is secure enough under the hood to store your sensitive information. Also, additional plugins are available that sit on top of MySQL for even tighter security.
  • Widely adopted: MySQL is used across the industry and is trusted the most. Therefore, if you face any problems, simply Google it and you shall land in plenty of forums. This is a great relief as when you are in a need of help, you can find it right in your browser.
  • Lightweight application: MySQL is not a heavy application. However, the data you store in the database can get heavy with time, but as in the configuration and MySql application files, those are not very heavy and can easily be installed on legacy systems as well.
  • Learning curve: is big. Newbies will face problems in understanding the platform initially. However, with plenty of online resources, one can easily find solutions to problems and learn on the go.
  • Backup and restore: MySQL is not very seamless. Although the data is never ruptured or missed, the process involved is not very much user-friendly. Maybe, a new command-line interface for only the backup-restore functionality shall be set up again to make this very important step much easier to perform and maintain.
Pablo Gonzalez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • It is pleasing to see the visible improvement f in data accessibility since the query language is applied.
  • It is like a huge repository where we get to store huge sets of information or data.
  • Although you can add the data you require as more and more data is added, the fixity of it becomes more critical.
  • As the demand, size, and use of the system increase, you may also need to change or acquire more equipment on your servers, although this is an internal inconvenience for the company.
July 07, 2022

Best DBMS

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Clustering Feature is amazing
  • Well support for GIS datatypes
  • Query language is really fantastic and very powerful
  • need more improvement on supporting large database
  • improvement on partitioning
  • Debugging Tool should be improved
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • PHP's ability to be programmed.
  • Relational data querying.
  • Relational database storage.
  • Enhanced diagnostic capabilities would be beneficial.
  • Data view tabs may greatly facilitate the process of data merging.
  • Memory utilization adjustment can be difficult.
Jeffrey Lange | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Connect to database(s)
  • Store data into those databases
  • Query data from different or multiple tables
  • Unions are often hard to do at beginner level
  • Joins are often hard to do for beginners
  • I'm honestly not sure what else can be improved
Alok Pabalkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Provides different types of engines like MyISM, InnoDB, CSV etc (about 16 types) to store & read that information as per the requirement.
  • Storing Transaction Data because it is ACID Compliant
  • It is inbuilt functions for encryption, enciding, datetime operations, arithmetic operations, bin,hex,etc conversions, string operations etc
  • Very efficient in sorting, aggregations, full-text, partial-text searching
  • Should have a Column Based storage engine for a analytical & reporting data.
  • Can have a improved document storage
  • MySQL doesn't have many tools to monitor performance and fix issues easily
Rishabh Khanna | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is easy to understand.
  • It works well with most of the popular programming languages.
  • It is better and cheaper than other relational database services available in market.
  • I would love to see some updates in the UI part of it.
  • They should work on their documentation. Make it more readable by changing fonts.
Alena Burda | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It has hit every nook and corner of my entire organization and I am very much satisfied with its high availability, self-healing, provisioning, monitoring, and much more.
  • It works faster and gives effective services.
  • My team is at ease to work on such a reliable platform that is concerned with security. It provides me full control over all aspects of MySQL through its comprehensive set of advanced features, management tools, and technical support as well.
  • It is the most reliable database management tool that collaborates really well with WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, etc., and equips me with all the necessary tools that could be beneficial to meet database challenges of next-generation web and cloud services.
  • This is a very costly tool that really does not fit well with small business setups.
  • There are still many complications (e.g., I faced difficulty in its licensing and its UI/UX could be improved too). Also, it is complicated in understand, as too much of the information is available--it becomes difficult to understand.
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