Works well for small projects
March 30, 2017
Works well for small projects
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with MySQL
MySQL is still the most used database towards my company projects. We use it as the main database for our applications and it's doing well since 2010.
- It is simple to install and manage
- It's battle tested, many applications are using it.
- The problem with its split to MariaDB broke part of its community
- Some types of data are not consistent, the database does not enforce some kinds of data
- It lacks some formats, like json for exeple
- Simple operation
- Easy to use for any developer, we use the main driver for our language of choice
The main argument of this decision was by popularity. At the time (2010), MySQL was the most popular open source database. Between 2010 and today, we evaluated different databases and PostgreSQL is a great competitor. SQL Server is good for windows applications but it's not open source, so we dropped it. MongoDB is a different kind of database, but we evaluated it as found that most of our problems were relational. We are still using MySQL for most part of our applications but are considering PostgreSQL for the new ones.