We performed a comparison between MYSQL and SQL Server based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SQL Server comes out ahead in this comparison because it is less demanding on resources and can more easily be integrated with other solutions. Some users feel that MySQL requires more maintenance and can be a bit buggy and less stable than SQL Server.
"It has a lot of features. The RDBMS, consistency, and multi-user features are valuable."
"The deployment process is pretty fast."
"The way that MySQL has improved my organization is that it comes free and also works fine on the technical side."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The replication feature is the most valuable. We are replicating our servers."
"The one interesting thing about this product is that it is open source. It comes from an open source product. MySQL has been positioned as open source, but it also provides support."
"The relations in the database, the dynamic workflow, and the ability to connect with all columns. It's useful for e-commerce."
"It is very easy to install and has all basic database features."
"It is quite reliable in cluster configurations and has helped me to reduce downtime and improve SLAs."
"This solution has proven stability and operational power."
"Backups hardly get corrupt."
"We're satisfied with the stability."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features are programmability and reliability."
"The most valuable features of this solution are easy queries and straightforward programming for beginners."
"If you need to, you can scale the solution very easily."
"They should come up with a better solution than the NDB cluster for better scaling. If they could come up with a better solution for write scaling, apart from the NDB cluster, which is supported by all open source communities, that would be great. Although the NDB cluster, I believe, is an open-source tool, it's not widely supported as a solution."
"Improvements are required in character set support, scalability, and big data sets."
"The backup methods need improvement."
"MySQL is not easily scalable on cost effective consumer grade hardware."
"Could use some additional JSON query support in the solution."
"The documentation is pretty weak and should be improved."
"It would be helpful if there were a graphical user interface to administer, configure, and tune it."
"The product is a little bit complex and it is difficult to find sufficient documentation."
"The interface integration could be better."
"There should be more tools and documentation for tuning the performance of Microsoft SQL Server. It would be nice to have more tools for tuning because currently, all the tuning that we have to do with our databases is almost manual. We have to read a bunch of knowledge base articles, and this information should be better documented. Its free text search should also be improved. It is quite important for us. Currently, we're developing our own free text search because of the lacking flexibility in Microsoft SQL Server. Therefore, we're kind of using elastic search and making different implementations in order to reach our targets. Using just the native free text search of Microsoft SQL Server is not enough for us. It should have more flexible features as compared to the current version."
"The pricing of the product could be better."
"I would like to have the ability to restore backups in the next release."
"The interface could be updated to make it slightly more user-friendly."
"The licensing costs are very high."
"The performance needs some improvement and it needs more features integrated into it."
"The price could be better. In the next release, it would be better if the database was more easily extendable."
MySQL is ranked 4th in Relational Databases Tools with 24 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 22 reviews. MySQL is rated 8.2, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of MySQL writes "A tool that offers an easy setup phase along with exceptional stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Stores all of our data, and there is nothing that it can't do". MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Teradata and Oracle Database, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, IBM Db2 Database and Vertica. See our MySQL vs. SQL Server report.
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