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Great choice for common data needs
September 20, 2019

Great choice for common data needs

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with MySQL

MySQL is used in the whole organization, for variety of engineering and business purposes. Examples of uses:
  • DevOps pipelines data
  • Software artifact data and metadata
  • Test results
  • Validation results
  • Users and their associated data
  • Extracts from Big Data systems
MySQL is a data store many users are familiar with, and that makes for easy adoption. The infrastructure teams have experience in running it reliably.
  • Popular
  • Improving capabilities over time
  • Widespread knowledge
  • Reactive APIs
  • NoSQL support
  • Graph data models
  • Open source version is good, you can buy support where needed
  • Cheap to start
  • Available in the cloud
MySQL is perceived as less scalable than DB2. DB2 provides for an easy migration up to more scale if it is acceptable or required to remain in the IBM ecosystem, which can scale all the way to z-Series mainframes. For some enterprises like insurance and banking, this is a significant advantage.
  • Conventional relational data model
  • Small and medium data sets work well
  • For large data sets consider enhancements like Vitesse
  • The new JSON document support is an excellent addition. This enables us to eliminate some NoSQL document stores (for example, MongoDB or CouchDB, Couchbase) and instead use only one database for various uses.
  • The development and support team are familiar with RDBMS.