MySQL Shines In The Right Situations
October 31, 2025

MySQL Shines In The Right Situations

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with MySQL

We use MySQL to run the database back end of our company websites and a handful of OLTP applications. It provides a lightweight relational database system that is easy to manage and low in cost. Because we use the free version, support can be iffy, but, generally, it just runs without issue.

Pros

  • Read heavy operations
  • Simple setup
  • Cross-platform support
  • Large community
  • Cloud integration

Cons

  • Write heavy workloads
  • Horizontal scalability
  • Analytic workloads
  • Lack of advanced features
  • No-cost back end for our websites
  • Linux experience for DBAs
It's usefulness in certain situations relative to the cost is an major positive. It can handle personal databases, enterprise databases, and anything in-between. It's lack of scalability and support keeps it from a 10, but those things tend to come with the reasons that make it such a viable platform so it gets a solid 9
Is not a drop-in replacement for any of the things listed above. MySQL has it's purpose and use-cases, same as those. It's a low-cost solution for high read/low write applications and works very well when used in the right circumstances. Support can be purchased from various companies (Oracle, Percona, etc...), but otherwise you are relying on the community and your own skills. The community is quite large and very helpful though.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of MySQL go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy MySQL again?

Yes

High read/low write applications such as websites is where MySQL's ease of setup and general usage really shine. It is open source and coupled with it's cross-platform availability allowing it to run on Linux makes for an extremely low-cost RDBMS solution.

Larger companies with higher budgets may want to look at more enterprise level solutions (SQL Server, Oracle, etc...) for larger OLTP and OLAP workloads for their scalability and support.

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