MySQL - Open Source RDBMS
January 05, 2021

MySQL - Open Source RDBMS

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with MySQL

MySQL is a great Open Source Relational Database Management System(RDBMS). It has a lot of features. It is very stable. It provides an easy to use GUI with options for DDL, DML and DCL operations. One can easily create/alter tables, views, procedures, triggers, functions, indexes and much more. Writing queries, sub queries and joins are easily possible with MySQL.
  • MySQL is compatible to run on many OS like Windows, Unix, Linux.
  • MySQL allows transactions to be rolled back, commit, and crash recovery.
  • MySQL is very secure as it keeps passwords encrypted
  • MySQL does not support a very large database size as efficiently as other databases do.
  • Transaction handling is not very efficient.
  • SQL check constraint is not supported by MySQL.
  • High performance.
  • Free of cost.
  • Reliable and stable.
  • Easy to use GUI with many features.
MySQL has a GUI which makes it easy for developers to work upon. It has all features like replication, backup and crash recovery. Also since it is freely available it becomes commercially feasible for people to use this DB. Also MySQL can be easily used as a back end for the front end languages like Java, PHP and ASP.NET. Thus integration with front end languages is an easy option.

Do you think MySQL delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with MySQL's feature set?

Yes

Did MySQL live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of MySQL go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy MySQL again?

Yes

MySQL will be most suited when the database size is not going to be very large. MySQL is a very fast, reliable, secure and stable database. When it comes to commercials, MySQL is open-source and free software under the GNU license. It is free to use, we can download it from MySQL official website without any cost. MySQL provides high performance when compared to other databases.