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.
"The most valuable feature of MySQL is its reliability and performance."
"The solution helps us perform with our databases and extract data."
"This specific version of this MySQL has been battle tested for a long time. Any issues are known issues and we pretty much don't have any problems when they're in production. So it's very stable."
"Support for enterprise-grade features like clustering, master-slave replication, even Sharding (to some extent) which is an advanced feature."
"The relations in the database, the dynamic workflow, and the ability to connect with all columns. It's useful for e-commerce."
"MySQL is easy to integrate. It works with just about every language."
"It was easy to install."
"The replication feature is the most valuable. We are replicating our servers."
"It's great that the nodes are synchronized so if you lose one it automatically moves to another."
"The documentation and manuals are very good."
"The solution is very easy to use. It's intuitive and easy to navigate. Overall, it's a straightforward product."
"It is a typical database solution, and it is working well so far. It is easy to use, and it is also very common and popular, which makes it easy to find a support partner."
"The interface is user friendly."
"I've been using SQL Server for 20 years, and there is nothing that it can't do. It is awesome."
"If backups and alerts are configured properly, I can also rely on my restoration plan."
"Its availability for a secured server is one of its most valuable features. Also its replications - we can manage eight replicas. Their clustering and availability groups are also valuable."
"If it had something similar to Microsoft’s DTS engine then it would be the best database system out there."
"The solution could be more secure."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having better performance and security."
"The auto-tuning and NDB cluster has some limitations regarding foreign keys."
"The availability of tools could be improved in the MySQL open-source platform. They can provide more analytical tools. I haven't had any particularly difficult issues to troubleshoot on MySQL, but in the past, on Microsoft SQL Server, I had to troubleshoot some difficult issues, and better tools were in place to see what was going on in real-time on the server. So, that's the bit that is lacking on the MySQL open-source platform."
"There should be an arrangement for end-users to get trained to use the tool...Improvement-wise, a graphical interface could be added for new users, eliminating the need to memorize the complex syntax."
"Clusters are hard to perform so we use no SQL alternates like MongoDB."
"As a software developer, it can be hard to do something in Oracle that is SQL Server specific, and vice-versa, sometimes."
"SQL Server backups could be better."
"I would like to see SQL Server add the ability to write to multiple sites or support replication between multiple sites at the transaction level."
"They need to improve their support. It should be faster."
"The solution is lacking a compound index for comparing values."
"There should be more security updates for the product."
"Something that could be improved is the cost because it's very high. That's the only thing I'm concerned about but the technology is good."
"There is room for improvement in performance when managing a large quality of data and a high number of active users."
MySQL is ranked 4th in Relational Databases Tools with 140 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 244 reviews. MySQL is rated 8.2, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. 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 SQL Server writes "A stable, scalable, and easy-to-deploy solution that pretty much covers everything". 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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