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Reliability for free
October 22, 2018

Reliability for free

Benard Mutua | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with MySQL

MySQL is a great software that comes in really handy when trying to solve where the data in a project should be stored on different bespoke systems. The high availability mastered in the creation of this software database is very good and is a great addition to our company's solutions.
  • The price is just right for small to medium enterprises and startups since it is free
  • The software has a lot of functionality
  • It can be integrated to work with other products
  • It takes a while for the user to get to do incremental backups for the software
  • It lacks inbuilt support for XML
  • The relational databases need some work done work
  • Users have a lot of faith so there was an increase in sales in the last one year
  • Being open source (kinda) the software is not that expensive to start up but the yields are good.
  • With a minimal startup capital, the software positive return on investment I can estimate at 3 months
  • MariaDB and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Although big players in the market such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora jumped ship to use MariaDB, we found it more viable to use MySQL as a company. This was because MySQL was open source and offered a lot more functionality than other same priced software that were available in the market
MySQL allows a user to select from a range of storage engines that enable you to change the functionality of the tool and handle data from different table types. The system is incredibly reliable and doesn’t hog resources. MySQL has an easy to use interface, and various commands such as batch commands that enables a user to process enormous amounts of data.