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 availability and the easy to use feature is the most valuable. The documentation is also good."
"CockroachDB is highly reliable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its resiliency features and the geo-partitioning capabilities."
"The product has valuable security features."
"The initial setup and deployment are simple."
"The subset of SQL that my client is using is completely supported."
"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."
"It is a scalable solution."
"My main reason for using MySQL for this small customer database company and for some kinds of scientific projects was that I had to do the installation myself. I didn't have a database administration team behind me. Therefore, I was looking for something very easy to handle. MySQL is easy to install, connect, and do all such things."
"The most valuable feature of MySQL is auto-scaling."
"The initial setup was pretty straightforward. I would have worked with our IT team in terms of the initial setup."
"Support for enterprise-grade features like clustering, master-slave replication, even Sharding (to some extent) which is an advanced feature."
"It's a mature solution that's been around for decades."
"The relations in the database, the dynamic workflow, and the ability to connect with all columns. It's useful for e-commerce."
"The solution is a small application and is very easy to deploy."
"The initial setup and pricing could be improved."
"We are looking for more features to support distributed high availability and geo-partitioning."
"The product must improve its disaster recovery features."
"CockroachDB needs to improve store processes."
"I find the serverless offer a bit confusing."
"The platform could be more extensible."
"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."
"MySQL's performance needs to be improved for enterprise-level applications compared to Oracle and Postgres."
"On the database side, it should be really lightweight, and the data structure should be like MongoDB."
"Sometimes, I get lost in the toggles and buttons, and a better visual design would be nice. The layout is not user-friendly or efficient."
"It would be helpful if there were a graphical user interface to administer, configure, and tune it."
"The documentation is pretty weak and should be improved."
"When I run into issues, I really have to research how to fix them."
"Since we upgraded from 8.0.12 to 8.0.22, it has had some slowness-related issues. Some of the queries that were fast previously are quite slow now. I did some research, and I found many people complaining about it."
"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."
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 Oracle Java DB. See our CockroachDB vs. MySQL report.
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