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# Page 21 - Reviews of MySQL

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Surya P.  
Director & CEO  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best cross-platform database which can manage large database also"

October 20, 2021

5.0

Pros

Integration with development tools is simple, as is connectivity with many programming languages. It is more efficient and provides better services.

Cons

To setup and adapt it to the project needs, some skill is necessary. There is a lack of documentation for a big proportion of MySQL tools and functions. Also, security issue is a biggest concern when using MySQL like SQL injection attacks are very common.

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Manik S.  
Senior Software Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best tool for web and mobile app data"

August 24, 2018

5.0

Its highly efficient for developing applications in organization with easy environment and low cost.

Pros

My sql supports most of the programming language used in the organization. Its quick and very easy to run even on production environment. Because of low cost its in highly demand. Easy to learn queries and maintain with high performance.

Cons

For large data performance decreases. Some of the constraints dont work in like check constraint. Slower when running multiple queries.

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Barbara S.  
Software Programmer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The best for database"

December 16, 2018

5.0

It is perfect for the creation of customer database, payroll, products offered, sales or anything that comes to mind of course it is necessary to know PHP well to be able to make the correct call to the database and show the results that are they want.

Pros

What I like most about MySQL is that it is open source software so anyone who wants to use it can do it without any problem, besides it is super easy to use and can handle large databases as well. how to implement them to systems made in PHP language, and something very important in my case is that it is compatible with windows and with linux, since sometimes I use Linux and not windows as is common.

Cons

One disadvantage may be that it is necessary to know php since many functions are valid only with php, but with the right knowledge this tool is perfect, in my opinion the best in terms of database.

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Frico S.  
Student  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "MySQL for database"

January 12, 2023

5.0

If you want to create your first database, MySQL would be the best choice for you.

Pros

When I started to learn about database, my teacher told me to choose MySQL because it's very easy and simple to understand. It has many great features and functionality for database

Cons

MySQL couldn't handle a very big database (big data) so you must find another database for this case

Alternatives considered

[Oracle Database](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/)

Reason for choosing MySQL

MySQL is easier to use and learn especially if you're a beginner in database programming.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
SDE2  
Internet  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best Relational database for your application "

December 12, 2019

5.0

Overall best relational database and can handle huge amount of data with proper indexing and normalisations

Pros

\- can handle huge amount of data without degrading performance - great support on online forums and Very easy to write even the complex queries - different level of user access can be given for proper management

Cons

\- Sometimes initial setup might take time on linux machines - it becomes little slow even with proper indexing while searching and joining huge tables

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Aminah N.  
Web Scraping Specialist & PHP Web Developer  
Management Consulting  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Powerful enough to store your data just right"

April 12, 2019

5.0

The database you can always trust. You don't usually need to think. Just use it!

Pros

It works just great! I don't need to worry if I store sensitive data and it won't interact correctly between fields! It takes all of the important things in databases into their thought. I only need to know it's done great!

Cons

It can be frustrating to debug the SQL. It tells me the bug is around somewhere, but never really give me the exact spot of the bug. I waste a lot of time there.

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RH

Robert H.  
Dbase Admin III  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "A friendly database for end users and administrators loved by many companies."

July 6, 2020

4.0

Team lead of MySQL for On-Prem + Cloud, establish standards for install, upgrade, replication, backup, audit, monitoring, performance tuning and AWS automation with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) for RDS. Day to day administration and knowledge transfer to direct reports has been seamless and transparent with a low learning curve.

Pros

MySQL ease of use is superior to other platforms with respect to installation, upgrades, patching, replication and monitoring. It is a stable database with rich capabilities to debug and easy to monitor. Within a few hours I was able to tune the storage engine for an application, improve reads / writes by up to 5x and reducing SLA's for another from 6 mins down to 2 mins.

Cons

None drawbacks worth mentioning. As MySQL open source it is adopted by many 3rd party applications, efficient and stable. There are many tools readily available to leverage MySQL's capabilities.

Reason for choosing MySQL

n/a

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Vinnod K.  
Team Lead  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best for Starting"

September 27, 2021

5.0

Pros

This product is best for storing your data. It is one of the best starting databases to use when you start your career. using it for more than 15 years

Cons

all is good as per usage. But when you compare it with big players like Oracle it lacks some features

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Lead Software Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "best sql database and management"

August 8, 2019

5.0

i daily use this application for develop enterprise level applications

Pros

this is the best database i ever used. simple can store data. higher support for relational databases. very simple can connect to the applications.

Cons

this is not suitable for non relational databases

Alternatives considered

[DBSync](https://www.capterra.com/p/181143/DBSync-for-MSSQL-MySQL/)

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Software Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Mysql as a free relational database"

July 6, 2019

4.0

Good. We use mysql as our database for all our products.

Pros

Ability to store binary data as blob. Support almost every programing languages. free community server. support for advance stored procedures. easy to install and setup. easy to find answers for issues online.

Cons

Sometimes it gives meaningless error messages where the error is at another line but it mentions a wrong line number. Mysql server gone away error. gets slow when opening multiple connections

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James F.  
Web Developer  
Aviation & Aerospace  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The best database management software"

July 7, 2018

4.0

Pros

One of the best server side management softwares for databases. I can handle million of entries and can do complex operations together with tweaks you can achieve extreme performances. The new version is quite faster than the old one.

Cons

Great things come at a price, there were functions that you could just use out of the box, now for better performances those functions were scrubbed, and had to write 2 pages of code just for one function....

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SG

Steve G.  
IT  
Consumer Goods  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "MySQL is amazing"

May 27, 2022

5.0

I'm currently using it as a database to import a JIT CSV file & then output data from the database into an excel file. The SQL part was all easy, hardest part was writing a script to merge a temp DB with the live DB

Pros

The best part I loved about this is the user interface it offers, Very easy to administer and set up & configure. 10/10 the best of them all

Cons

The one thing I didnt like is I couldnt find any place to create a query to search the database through a GUI. Had to manually write up a query.

Reason for choosing MySQL

The original, The best, The more reliable & the most stable.

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AS

Arpan S.  
Technical Support Consultant  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Very powerful and feature enriched database management system"

January 27, 2019

5.0

\- If anyone is looking to buy a new database management system, then I would highly recommend to consult with an expert to find out if MySQL will be good choice for your environment.

Pros

\- Open source database management system that is reliable and powerful. - Installation can be done in a matter of minutes. - Tons of documentation available.

Cons

\- Be ready to spend hours navigating the official documentation for answers in case one is stuck. - Some part of the documentation is outdated and things would not work even after following all the steps. - It is not recommended to upgrade to MySQL just for the sake because it is an open source. - If your current database management system is doing everything you need everyday, then it is highly recommended to just stick with it. - Intermediate knowledge of SQL is required. - Performance is slow as compared to SQL server.

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Siraj W.  
Graphic Designer & Web Developer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "MySQL - Light & fast"

September 5, 2020

5.0

MySQL is good for websites / web applications with open-source ecosystem like PHP, Apache, Joomla, WordPress etc. Can be used for custom personal and/or business websites & applications. It is well suited for small & medium scale project. Not recommended for large projects. It is lighter and faster.

Pros

Its free, easy to manage and deploy. Easy to learn. Backup and restore are super easy. Its popular and well supported.

Cons

For large amount of data it is not much efficient. UI/UX of its platform need improvements.

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Aruna J.  
Research assistant  
Research  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Most renowned SQL database in the industry "

February 21, 2020

5.0

I have used mySQL for database implementations of several web applications. Very easy to implement. Even migration of the system from one server to another is very easy. Great Structured query language supported tool for database implementations.

Pros

This tool is very easy to deploy on servers and almost all of the developers are familiar with mySql. It has all of the features that a database should have. Very easy to implement ACID features and there are straight forward implementation techniques to avoid SQL injections and other similar vulnerabilities. There is a very good documentation for MySQL and there are lot of forum discussions related to this tool. Highly recommend for databases.

Cons

MySQL is a well optimized tool at present and therefore I cant remember of any bad situations happened with this tool. There are third party tools like Navicat to manage mySQL databases.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Quality Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "MySQL for relations DB"

November 5, 2018

5.0

Overall it simpler and user friendly than most of the DBMS

Pros

I really like the feature it has for reverse engineering where you can come up with the db tables and their relationships and then it allows to come up with DB schema design diagram from it. And it allows manual editing as well without having to write all queries. it is open source

Cons

when it comes to store procedures and functions the support is poor. and the query optimization can be improved

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Software Engineer  
Hospitality  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Amazing open source SQL app for starters "

October 5, 2017

5.0

Improved my Knowledge in SQL scripting, and familiarizing the relationships between one table to another using primary keys and foreign keys

Pros

Its free to use, easy to install, and you can easily create you our tables, and stored procedures. MySQL is an amazing starting point for people who want to learn how database function in the back end. I use personally use it for knowledge ad learn own my own on how to create tables and related them with other tables that i create within MySQL. I encourage other people who wants to learn how to create thier own database to start using MySQL, which is a great starting point for them.

Cons

Actually, i cant think of any downside of using MySQL aside from when connecting to the database there are times when the error message aren't clear enough to know what's going on?

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Rohit Y.  
Business Analyst  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best database management software "

November 30, 2018

5.0

Overall it is best in industry and day by day users are getting increased.

Pros

Easy to handle database queries. Best about MySQL is client and server with which many users can directly communicate with server at a time. It has proper security features. Double select is very useful feature. Triggers stored procedures views are best features of MySQL. Easy to connect with ODBC.

Cons

It doesn’t support all different formats which is why big data comes in picture.

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Victory S.  
Software Developer  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "MySQL is the database you need"

September 28, 2020

5.0

Generally, MySQL provides everything you would need in a database and if you ever have issues, there's a large community to provide you with the assistance you need.

Pros

MySQL is a great software for your database needs. While it provides all the basic features you would need from a database, it is very affordable. Even as it supports multiple connections , it is also fast .

Cons

I have personally not had any issues using MySQL. While it is not totally free, it is worth the cost.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Business Intelligence Analyst  
Internet  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Free and Easy"

November 2, 2017

4.0

Free and Easy to setup. Great for prototyping and getting stuff up and running quickly.

Pros

Well supported, easy to install and use. Widely used so plenty of assistance available online on stackexchange, etc. Free tools. Plenty of 3rd Party tools that can be free.

Cons

Lack of functionality when compared to other databases. No customer support for free product. Free tools are kind of buggy. MySQL Workbench code completion doesn't work particularly well.

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Jesus B.  
Programador  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "It is an excellent database tool, very light and easy to install as well as being the most recognize"

June 6, 2018

5.0

It has helped me a lot to give my systems quite good security, I recommend it enough to develop any project

Pros

It is easy to use and provides a fairly good security when developing any system or project in addition to being free and accessible to the entire community

Cons

It does not include graphics manager by default and it is difficult for me to change the password because it does not tell me in what format it is currently ... I think that is part of the security

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Software Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Easy to organize complex data"

March 10, 2018

5.0

Storing energy data for customers and over the years I got many trusted customer as they allow me to store their credentials as well.

Pros

Easy to create procedure and tables. We can store a large amount of data on this. Even i have a lot of data in procedure still it gives good performance. Indexes and cluster feature allow improving queries performance.

Cons

There is one small thing I noticed it does not show complete info on SQL execution plan if we have large SQL plan.

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GS

Ganeev S.  
Software Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Economic and Astounding tool for database management."

July 27, 2022

5.0

Using it daily in our company for managing database's of mid-tier projects. If you have proper knowledge, It can be the most efficient and inexpensive database management solution.

Pros

A great tool for database management. Easy to create and manage different databases. SQL queries run very fast and smoothly, even for large databases. It is free and easily available for download for Windows, Mac and Ubuntu. Different User's can access same database's at one time.

Cons

As the size of the database increases, searching and retrieval of data becomes slower. UI can be improved and should be made a little less complex for an user. Rollback and recovering data is a complex task.

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Jorge C.  
Site Reliability Manager  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great solution for database management"

March 31, 2019

5.0

This software is a must-have when there are projects that need databases. I use it every day and with the right client, it is a perfect tool.

Pros

First of all, it's free and open source. It is a very fast database and handles very well large data. There are very MySQL client software to use it, making it very easy to export from one computer to another

Cons

From a user point of view, I can't think of anything that is wrong with MySQL. Maybe on admin/DBA level it's different

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Senior software QA  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "This has got to be the best SQL editor that i have ever used"

February 8, 2021

4.0

Mostly a positive experience. But there are some edge case bugs that the devs need to fix.

Pros

So, ive been using multiple DB applications like this and the standout feature that i liked the most has got to be the filter. you dont have to manually type in the query. You can simply filter the results.

Cons

So, whenver youre using a VPN and gets disconnected from the server for some reason, reopening the editor makes you lose all the existing query that you wrote.

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