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MySQL - Great resource for educational institutions of less than 250 students.
June 23, 2017

MySQL - Great resource for educational institutions of less than 250 students.

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Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with MySQL

We are using MySQL across our entire organization. We use it store student attendance and billing. We use it to charge other school districts for students who are served here. It has reliably stored our student attendance and performed billing duties since 2008. It is cost effective and very flexible. It also produced mailing address labels for postal mail sent to the homes of the student population.
  • Easy automated backups.
  • Size of backups are very manageable.
  • Performs well on servers that have not had a lot of money invested in them.
  • Reliable performance.
  • Upgrading to newer versions of MySQL was sometimes challenging.
  • Communication with online backup server stopped working and is pretty complicated to set up.
  • Lots of the UI is very basic and limited.
  • MySQL has had a positive impact on ROI.
  • The negative impact is that developing software to access MySQL is complex and not simple.
MySQL scales less than Microsoft SQL and Oracle. If you require very large data sets Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle may be better suited. Its support and polish are similar to PostgreSQL. Support is also not as polished as Microsoft SQL and Oracle. If you require professional support Microsoft and Oracle may have an advantage over MySQL.
It is well suited to education environments where access to the attendance and billing is required over the Internet. Our student population was around 256 so if you are managing data for tens of thousands of individuals MySQL may not scale up to the much larger information store required for that student population data set.