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."The initial setup and deployment are simple."
"The product has valuable security features."
"The availability and the easy to use feature is the most valuable. The documentation is also good."
"The best feature of CockroachDB is the ability to keep the nodes in different locations."
"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 subset of SQL that my client is using is completely supported."
"CockroachDB is highly reliable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its resiliency features and the geo-partitioning capabilities."
"MySQL is a light database. It's not very complex. It's easy to develop, easy to maintain, and easy to back up and restore."
"SKIP LOCKED is a valuable feature."
"The solution is a small application and is very easy to deploy."
"The main advantage is the very large user base. This enables users to fix about any issue by answering any question."
"The solution is free to use, which is its most valuable aspect."
"It is a very stable solution. I deployed the product six years ago, and it still works fine."
"It creates a unified view of the entire architecture and performance factor, helping to manage the network more easily."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"We are looking for more features to support distributed high availability and geo-partitioning."
"The platform could be more extensible."
"CockroachDB needs to improve store processes."
"Cockroach does not support all types of protocols. I need to improve it myself to support a CouchDB on my network."
"The product must improve its disaster recovery features."
"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."
"The initial setup and pricing could be improved."
"I find the serverless offer a bit confusing."
"I would like to improve the solution’s pricing for licenses."
"In the next release, I would like to see the scalability features improved to allow you to configure it and reduce the complexity with the configuration, making it easier for the end-user to scale. Make it as simple as it can be."
"MySQL lacks a feature akin to Oracle's Real Application Clusters, which ensures continuous database availability within the same data center or nearby data centers."
"It is not as powerful as SQL Server. It can be more powerful. It is not scalable and has certain limitations, which is not the case with SQL Server."
"The GUI interface probably can be improved. Let us say I want to see the relationships in the database. In the query analyzer, I would like to go and drop the tables and create relationships between the tables. I haven't found a feature like that in MySQL. It was a shortcoming even in SQL Server. MySQL can have more performance monitoring tools. I know Google has these tools, but within MySQL, there are not that many tools to monitor things like performance and database locking. They might be in there, and I might not be familiar enough to know where they are. I am a pretty new user of MySQL."
"Scalability could be improved."
"While utilizing a comparable algorithm, is noted to be sensitive, especially when configuring the inner device."
"The technical support should be more knowledgeable and available worldwide."
CockroachDB is ranked 9th 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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