We performed a comparison between CockroachDB and MySQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."CockroachDB is highly reliable."
"The subset of SQL that my client is using is completely supported."
"The tool's most valuable feature is node syncing, which takes only 0.54 milliseconds."
"The product has valuable security features."
"The availability and the easy to use feature is the most valuable. The documentation is also good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its resiliency features and the geo-partitioning capabilities."
"I use CockroachDB to test big data samples and to create the best structure for databases. We have four users and required 10 people for deployment and maintenance."
"The best feature of CockroachDB is the ability to keep the nodes in different locations."
"The product is flexible and easy to use."
"The solution is a small application and is very easy to deploy."
"MySQL is easy to integrate. It works with just about every language."
"The most valuable features are that it's free and the documentation is good."
"The IO segregation in CGE is valuable."
"The initial setup was easy. I work in an agile way, which means coding and deploying quickly."
"The solution is great for small applications in particular."
"MySQL is easy and convenient for me. I don't need to rely on anyone. I can write the code and extract the information. It is fast if you know how to use it. The solution is not expensive, and most of the developers know how to use it. It is easy to create tables. The solution is stable and has good performance. The connection with AWS gives regular updates, which is manual otherwise and a nightmare."
"The closer they can make CockroachDB to being completely compatible with Postgres, the better. It's almost compatible, but not completely. If it was, it would be nice to just be able to use Postgres libraries without any fiddling."
"Cockroach does not support all types of protocols. I need to improve it myself to support a CouchDB on my network."
"The platform could be more extensible."
"We are looking for more features to support distributed high availability and geo-partitioning."
"I find the serverless offer a bit confusing."
"CockroachDB needs to improve store processes."
"The product must improve its disaster recovery features."
"The initial setup and pricing could be improved."
"The technical support should be more knowledgeable and available worldwide."
"I am looking for the Temporal SQL feature, which basically means that there is complete history for each table. This feature is currently available in MariaDB. PostgreSQL has something called a foreign-data wrapper, which is another way to access external data from inside. MySQL could have a similar feature."
"The user interface could be more user friendly. Mainly because most of the times we see black and white digital lines. Something like Python."
"I would rate the stability a seven out of ten. It does break down a little at times."
"We want high availability and replication features, which are currently missing in this solution. It would be great if they can provide an in-built replication feature, similar to Oracle RAC, in MySQL."
"When working with a cluster wide, I have to use the MySQL cluster version."
"From a user perspective, the initial setup could be simplified a bit."
"The performance, stability, and security are areas with shortcomings in MySQL, where improvements are required."
CockroachDB is ranked 10th in Relational Databases Tools with 10 reviews while MySQL is ranked 4th in Relational Databases Tools with 142 reviews. CockroachDB is rated 8.0, while MySQL is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CockroachDB writes "Open source with extensive documentation and a University for training". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MySQL writes "Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups". CockroachDB is most compared with Oracle Database, Citus Data, Amazon Aurora, SQL Server and MariaDB, whereas MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Teradata and SQLite. See our CockroachDB vs. MySQL report.
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