Simple and Easy to Use Database!
September 18, 2019
Simple and Easy to Use Database!
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with MySQL
MySQL is being used by our core team to develop and test out our prototype applications. It is lightweight, easy to use, and offers plugins for almost all of the widely used programming languages. Thanks to MySQL, spinning up a database to back prototype applications is a quick process. The rest of my organization is using Oracle Database 12c.
- It is designed for Web, Cloud and Big Data. It provides high availability, self-healing and data integrity, provisioning, monitoring and resource management, developer agility, and security.
- There is complete workflow control, allowing users to tweak all aspects of MySQL.
- There is a variety of user interfaces that can be implemented, lowering the burden on programmers.
- Incremental backups take more time and hassle to configure compared to other databases.
- There is no built-in support for XML and OLAP which hurts business intelligence related analytics.
- MySQL has gotten farther away from the open-source mentality. MySQL has proprietary and closed-source modules.
- MySQL is free, so that had huge positive impact on our ROI.
- There aren't any negative impacts MySQL has had in ROI.
MySQL offers some of the features as Oracle Database 12c, however, there are many crucial ones that are missed. Features such as OLAP, really make Oracle Database 12c a clear winner here. We use both databases in our organization for separate reasons, MySQL for prototyping, and Oracle Database 12c for our production environments.