Want to know why MySQL?
October 24, 2018
Want to know why MySQL?
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with MySQL
MySQL was used by the IT department at the place I worked before. We used it mainly to add, access or manage any data in our student database. I worked at a center where students would come in and take their tests online. Whenever there were any issues with a student's test, it was always easy for us to use MySQL to retrieve his data from the database and resolve the issue.
- Quick processing. MySQL always ensure optimum speeds, and unique memory caches for enhanced performance.
- Reliability. It has features like consistent, isolated, durable transaction support. It also guarantees instant deadlock identification.
- Flexibility of use. It makes maintenance, debugging and updates fast and easy while also enhancing user experience.
- Does not really support larger databases as efficiently as smaller ones. When the data grows, only the simple and indexed query gets good performance, however, a complex query gets comparatively slow, even sometimes unable to fulfill the request.
- A few stability issues. There have been some cases when MySQL works perfectly fine for 1-2 weeks and then it just suddenly crashes.
- Poor performance scaling. SQL does not support auto sharding, so you may need to maintain your nodes manually.
- High scalability
- Lowers TCO
- Offers exceptional security
Cuts down seperate charges for additional databases as in Microsoft SQL Server. It is an open source software compared to other database management systems.