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MySQL Review
February 23, 2016

MySQL Review

Jeff Peck | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with MySQL

We use MySQL to store product data for millions of industrial parts. It provides a straight-forward way to perform queries on the data, relatively quickly.
  • Easy to instantiate a new database
  • Multiple ways to read and write data
  • Many possibilities of types of queries that can be performed
  • May not be as performant as alternatives such as MariaDB in some cases
  • A slight learning curve if you want to configure MySQL to tune for performance, etc.
  • MySQL contains the database of all products of our largest clients
The differences are minor, but worth looking into.
If you don't require support from Oracle, it might be better to go with MariaDB or a similar alternative, for the performance improvements that have been discussed in various articles. In day-to-day usage, it is likely negligible, but worth considering the options.