We compared Teradata and MySQL based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Teradata stands out for its powerful analytics, scalability, and security features, while users appreciate its thorough customer support. On the other hand, MySQL is praised for its efficiency in managing data, user-friendly interface, and strong performance. While both have positive ROI, Teradata requires improvements in speed and user interface, while MySQL needs enhancements in performance optimization and documentation.
Features: Teradata's valuable features include powerful analytics, scalability, efficient data management, reliable performance, robust security, easy integration, user-friendly interface, and extensive support. MySQL, on the other hand, boasts efficient data handling, strong performance, compatibility, ease of use, flexibility, and robust security measures.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Teradata is mentioned to be minimal, allowing for a smooth implementation process. On the other hand, MySQL is praised for its affordable setup cost. Both products offer flexible pricing and licensing options to cater to different business needs., Teradata's ROI is significant, with users benefiting from improved data management and informed decision-making. MySQL also has a positive ROI, praised for its reliability, cost-effectiveness, scalability, and community support.
Room for Improvement: Teradata product has room for improvement in areas such as performance, user interface, workflow, and support resources. In comparison, MySQL needs enhancements in performance, documentation, support, scalability, compatibility, and security features.
Deployment and customer support: User reviews for Teradata indicate varying experiences and time requirements for the deployment, setup, or implementation phases. In contrast, with MySQL, some users reported several months for deployment and an additional week for setup, while others mentioned both processes taking only a week in total., Teradata's customer service focuses on addressing needs and resolving issues, while MySQL's support team is praised for their prompt, helpful, and knowledgeable assistance, offering efficient solutions with clear and effective communication.
The summary above is based on 45 interviews we conducted recently with Teradata and MySQL users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It creates a unified view of the entire architecture and performance factor, helping to manage the network more easily."
"The replication feature is the most valuable. We are replicating our servers."
"It is pretty simple to use and I don't have anything really bad to say about it."
"This product is a good teaching tool for students who want to learn about networked databases."
"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."
"What I really like about MySQL is the opportunity to search for information and organize it any way I like."
"What I've been most pleased with is the cost point, performance, and ease of use."
"The solution is free to use, which is its most valuable aspect."
"Teradata's pretty fast."
"The solution scales well on the cloud."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Teradata's best feature is its speed with historical data."
"The key advantages are Performance when processing Terabytes of data and scalability."
"The two types of partitioning have been very significant for us - row and columnar partitioning."
"The most valuable feature of Teradata is security. It runs on Unix and Linux platforms which provide better security."
"Teradata features high productivity and reliability because it has several redundancy options, so the system is always up and running."
"Oracle should start putting in some of the enterprise features in the standard feature. There are some key features that should be part of the standard."
"We require more ease of use, scalability, and high availability. These are some of the critical features that we use and look for in a product. It should be easier to manage clusters. Scalability is very important for us because our projects and concurrency requirements are quite big. We also require high availability of the server, application, and other things. It should also have more performance-based features or enhancements from the performance point of view. When we divide a database, it should be able to handle the queries very fast."
"Improvements are required in character set support, scalability, and big data sets."
"It could be more secure."
"MySQL could introduce more indexing strategies."
"The technical support should be more knowledgeable and available worldwide."
"The documentation is pretty weak and should be improved."
"While utilizing a comparable algorithm, is noted to be sensitive, especially when configuring the inner device."
"Teradata's UI could be improved."
"The cloud is the new challenge and the new opportunity."
"Teradata's UI could be more user-friendly."
"It needs a teaching web site with more training on third-party tools used for BI."
"I'm not sure about the unstructured data management capabilities. It could be improved."
"I've been using the same UI for 20 years in Teradata. It could use some updating. Adding more stability around Teradata Studio would be outstanding. Teradata Studio is a Java-based version of their tool. It's much better now, but it still has some room for improvement."
"It could use some more advanced analytics relating to structured and semi-structured data."
"Limited interest and success in some areas make us hesitate about upgrading."
MySQL is ranked 4th in Relational Databases Tools with 142 reviews while Teradata is ranked 7th in Relational Databases Tools with 54 reviews. MySQL is rated 8.2, while Teradata is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MySQL writes "Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQL Server and Oracle Database, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle Exadata, BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. See our MySQL vs. Teradata report.
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