MySQL Scalability

Patryk Golabek - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Translucent Computing Inc

Since we have MySQL specifically, and we have to use it in many different environments, dev, testing, and production. All those different people are using it. Developers, QAs, automated testings running against that. In production we have many different users, so we have different meaningful products that are already running. For example, gotoloans.com. It's a loan application site in Canada that is serving a lot of users daily and is backed by MySQL and Elastic SQL databases. So we're using it for high volume and low volume. We have it in many different projects and many different environments.

We use it in different environments, the production also, and many different products as well.

We do have plans to run everything as a cluster, and probably will slowly switch to MetaDB. That is something we're doing right now. We also have plans to switch it to the managed version as well for production deployments, for the simple reason that we're trying to offload as much as we can from the DevOps people. So if offloading that management database from them will help them, then we'll do it.

Also, there are clients that have preferences when it comes to where the database should be running. For example, one of our major clients wants to run specifically in our database because we built it for them and they're comfortable managing it. You're always more comfortable having a managed version. So if you have a small team with a managed DBA, even though it's more expensive and there's always some issues coming up with it, you can just let Amazon manage it for you, and you don't even have to think about it. You could do the backups and if something happens, they can restore it. And you can scale as much as you want, as well.

In terms of cost, there are different flavors of it. It depends on the solution. Locally, as I said, MySQL is going to stay the way it is right now. We're not going to have a cluster version, because for development we just need a database. You need to have a scalable database or clustered.

So MySQL is going to change. We're in the process of transitioning the production versions to cluster versions for some of the projects because they have more volume. We can see that because of the volume of users, and how many queries they do on a daily basis, they would benefit from having a cluster versus a SQL database. So you can have a master to master cluster, which you can have separately. You can actually manage your read and write separately, and then optimize. So you can give more power to people, to certain queries, spreading across the cluster. So all those sorts of things come with the cluster database. That's going to improve performance.

One of the things that we're doing is looking at the short version of MySQL, which is a new thing. This means a shared database. Elasticsearch is made up of shards. This is a different way of thinking about relational databases like MySQL. Traditionally, MySQL or relational databases, have been crafted by having an instance of equal slave to equal master. You have many slaves and many masters, as well. Now the sharding makes the database a little bit different, and it's more usable for us in terms of the way we deploy things. So we're looking right now at MySQL sharding as well, and a few of the different flavors of that so that we can scale it horizontally. Instead of actually creating an instance of MySQL, we can actually spread across multiple different shards across many instances.

And it's also cheaper as well. Once you start getting into the shard world, it's really cheaper to deal with some of these issues, like clustering issues. So it's more cost-effective.

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Alireza-Nikseresht - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Shiraz University

I would rate the solution’s scalability a ten on ten. The tool is network-based and the scalability depends on the design of your project. You can use the product of both large and small-scale projects.

We are not a very large organization. There are around ten developers who use MS SQL server and MySQL for databases.

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CharlesBrewer - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at NaMax Limited

We've had absolutely no limitations. However, we haven't got enormous data. It's not very vast, so scalability hasn't been an issue. At our level, it's not even a question. It's absolutely perfect. I'd rate it an eight out of ten in terms of scalability, which I describe as very good

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Mohini Kushwaha - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA Developer at Dimiour India Private Limitied

We have four to five people using this solution.

I rate the scalability of MySQL an eight out of ten.

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Ruhul Amin - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Officer at Midland Bank Plc

I would rate the scalability eight out of ten.

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Deepak Sahu - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Dell Technologies

MySQL is a scalable tool. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. My whole company directly or indirectly uses the tool since we are involved in analytics. My company is an enterprise-sized one.

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Guruprasad Gonjare - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Cloud Architecture at LTIMINDTREE

I would give a rating of eight out of ten for the solution’s scalability. We have a large user base for the solution which is more than 30.

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Kevin Honde - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Solution Architect at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe

I would rate the scalability of this solution an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best. I believe MySQL very scalable.

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GG
Computer & Information Systems Manager at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees

It has good scalability. You can use the Google interface to build it on the cloud. If you start noticing performance issues or you see it taking up memory or resources, you can add another processor. It is pretty easy to do. Right now, we are in beta. We haven't rolled it out completely to the people.

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Shivaprasad C S - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer at Ministry of Interior

Around 150 users are using the solution daily in our organization.

I rate the solution a six out of ten for scalability.

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Serge Dahdouh - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Les Roches International School of Hotel Management

The tool is scalable. Around 15-20 developers use the tool in my company. 

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AB
Associate Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is decently, but not largely scalable. It works very well and is comfortable with 50K or 60K of data. If you have large-scale data, then the solution is slower and has some errors. 

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PeterKrall - PeerSpot reviewer
Freelance Software Engineer + Director of a company at Peter Krall Consulting

I used it for a small customer database company in England with 20 employees. There were only two people using it. It was really a small solution. For this purpose, it was perfect, but I'm not sure how it scales. It was just not an issue in this case because we had very little data. 

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Philippe Liénard - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at csm

For my use case, it is okay. Basically, it's just me for development. Previously, all clients or members of the club accessed it. When there was an event, maybe 30 to 40 people would try to access the system simultaneously.

I'm using SiteGround for hosting the website and its servers. I've chosen a package with more than enough CPU and memory to avoid trouble.

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Maher Shahzalal - PeerSpot reviewer
Backend developer at Alphatraduction

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. 

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Ahmed-Ramy - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at TMentors

The solution is scalable, however, sometimes you might have issues. You need to have the knowledge to make sure that you can scale. That said, there are a lot of used MySQL implementations all around the world, which shows that it's a proven product. It has been there for more than 20 years or so.

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RU
Senior Consultant at Tata Consultancy

Scalability is not as straightforward with MySQL compared to Oracle. I would rate it seven out of ten. Our clientele typically includes small, medium, and enterprise-level businesses.

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Egzon Maloku - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Pantheon ERP Implementer & Head of Accounting at Datalab

My company has two users for the solution. 

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SG
Works

The scalability is good.

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CG
Clinical Data Management Principal at Vertex-in-Healthcare

The solution is scalable and it is one of the reasons why we chose the tool. Oracle has the information documented. We have a solution that we sell to the end users. There are about 50-200 users of that solution who may be using it simultaneously. We also have dozens of clients like that.

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AJ
Officer IT data processing at Stanbic Bank Ghana, Ltd.

It is a scalable solution. We have 1200 solution users in our organization.

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ND
Specialist Geosciences Data Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

This application is pretty easy to scale.

Within my department, which is technical data management, approximately 75% of the people use MySQL.

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Kevin Honde - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Solution Architect at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe

The solution is very scalable. If you want to install it in the machine and scale that machine, you can do so. Or you add more machine nodes whereby you are actually clustering items and you're clustering your database within one site. The solution will actually extend these needs to another site for replication, DR replication.

We have about 20 people using the solution currently.

We do plan to continue to use the solution in the future.

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it_user253797 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant, Business Owner, Lecturer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

Most scalability issues with MySQL can be simply resolved by adding more memory, optimizing settings or moving to a better server.

Of course, if you are talking about 40-50TB of data, or critical applications, then you will probably need to move to a more commercial database, such as Oracle.

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Marco Ismael González Rangel - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Teravision Technologies

MySQL can scale well.

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Caroline Bentolila - PeerSpot reviewer
Process Automation Analyst at Stone

We have approximately 100 people using this solution.

We plan to increase the usage of the solution in the future.

I rate the scalability of MySQL a ten out of ten.

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NM
Database Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

There are a lot of features provided by Oracle MySQL, Percona, and MariaDB. They all have their own replication cluster. Percona has XtraDB, MariaDB has GaleraDB, Oracle MySQL has its own cluster as well. MySQL replication is common in all three MySQL flavors. MySQL replication is an excellent read-scalable feature, which has also evolved a lot from its earliest versions to the latest 8.0 version.

The NDB cluster, which has been supported and developed by Oracle, and is based on MySQL, is different than all of the other MySQL replication cluster solutions. It's both read and write scalable. All other cluster features work well for read scaling. NDB cluster is the only cluster feature recorded by Oracle MySQL, which is write scalable as well as re-scalable.

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AG
Product manager at Metrodata Electronics Tbk PT

In terms of scalability, because the application is online, MySQL grows when their business grows and expands with the system. They may need to add more servers, but when they add more servers it means MySQL also expands.

MySQL has that kind of capability - when the servers grow they have some kind of clustering method or clustering concept, which makes it scalable onto several servers. So it will follow the growth of the servers to cover the business.

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it_user448206 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Application Programmer/Analyst, Team Lead at a university with 10,001+ employees

We did encounter some scalability issues as it has limited clustering support, it requires scaling up rather than out to some degree. Of course, you can have read replicas. It also has a fall-off on performance with very high workloads, but it takes awhile to get there.

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Ismail Yushaw - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisor at GGoC1

I won't be able to comment on the product's scalability since I haven't deployed it in a cluster environment.

Our company has over a thousand devices, including switches and a couple of other devices, which report to MySQL for management purposes. In general, MySQL is a very robust tool.

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AV
Technical Director at Metrofibre Networx

It works well. So, I rate its scalability a ten out of ten. Our company is managing hundreds to thousands of clients, but we use MySQL for different projects. So, around 50 users work on it.

In terms of increasing the solution's usage, I think we've done enough, like, stabilizing MySQL.

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Milton Palacin - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at SBS

My impression of the scalability of this solution is that it is standard. However, scalability depends on enterprise size and legacy product compatibility.

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AM
Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH

We have trained hundreds of users.

I will continue to use this solution for learning purposes.

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JohnMitchell - PeerSpot reviewer
jmitchell@natbankmw.com at NBM

According to our experience, it's not really an enterprise tool that you can easily expand and scale the way you can with, for example, Oracle. It's good for small to medium-sized applications. It is not ideal for very big applications.

We have a data center that uses the application and it isn't very heavy on traffic. It basically runs on its own. We only use it occasionally. It's like a co-operation management system.

We do plan to increase usage, but we plan on looking at different databases. We're in the process of researching how scaling up would work. Chances are, we'll need to move to a different platform.

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SJ
Director Of Sales Marketing at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. It's easy.

We have 500 users on the solution at this time. We are likely to increase usage in the future. 

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Anays Micolod - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmeuse Python 3 at Université Grenoble Alpes

The scalability is good.

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PA
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of MySQL is very good. There are no barriers to it. It can be used and accommodated in any particular language. We can use it with Java and Python.

We have almost everyone in my organization using the solution. We have developers and support teams all using it. If my organization has 1,000 people, almost 900 people out of them were using the service.

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LK
Systems Administrator at Dairibord

Since MySQL is running our email system, there are around 200 users. It's installed on one of the servers and the admins are the ones who interact with the system itself if the need arises. 

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AC
IT Consultant at Woohoogeeks

MySQL is scalable for SMEs and works on a number of different operating systems.

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Prince Barai - PeerSpot reviewer
Back End Developer at Agnos Inc.

MySQL is a scalable solution.

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Waqar Malik - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst at National University of Sciences and Technology

There are around 60 plus users for the tool in our company.

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RP
Database Administrator at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

There was no issue with scalability

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Tapas Karmakar - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Technology Artchitect and Specialist at Wizertech Informatics Pvt. Ltd.

The solution is scalable, but I can configure this product with two nodes in case of a rack, but it is impossible in any of the databases. Therefore, I rate it a seven out of ten.

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AR
Vice President & Head of IT Governance at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is not that scalable. It's not something you should pick if you need something to expand significantly.

While I can't speak to how many people use the solution in our company, I can say that it is used by several departments and divisions.

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HE
IT Infrastructure & Data Platform Sr. Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

MySQL is easy to scale.

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JK
Data Analyst at KPMG East Africa

I’m the only user in my organization.

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MW
Project Manager at Realnux

It's hard to say if MySQL is scalable as we've never tried to scale it. 

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LM
Ingénieur Etude et Développement / Technical Lead Java at ATOS

Scalability is difficult. You can scale it horizontally, but once you have many instances, it is difficult.

You can improve the server, resources that are available, and the processor is good but if you want to scale it on many instances than it is a bit complex.

We use it for customers. We have 10 instances of MySQL independently, on the project we are currently working with.

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TB
Managing Director at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

MySQL is a fully scalable product.

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KV
Data Architect at ACPAS Loan Management Software

It is scalable. We currently have six users.

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MM
Senior Web Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees

No scalability issues at the scale at which my systems are operating. One thing I did encounter with an earlier version of MySQL 5 – the mysql process will not automatically use available CPU cores on the server, even if it was a dual or quad core CPU. I was troubleshooting a scalability issue when I saw this, it maxed out just a single core and left the other three (in my quad core CPU server) idle. There was a specific condition / trigger that will make the mysql process span the other available cores (I can’t recall now but a quick googling likely will uncover this).

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SN
Director at BAB

I rate the tool’s scalability a seven out of ten. We have four direct users and more than 1000 indirect users. We use the tool twice a week.

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PE
Lead Project Manager, Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

In terms of scalability, I have not done anything bigger than a couple hundred people a day on a site, so I really couldn't tell you about that.

Our clients are small businesses, almost all of them with less than 50 employees.

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ZG
Senior System Administrator at Debre Markos University

The solution is scalable. 

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OK
Solution Architect at KIAN company

We have approximately five users using this solution in my organization.

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HP
Senior Data Analyst at Charutarhealth Org

I haven't seen a need for scalability.

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AR
Information Technology Infrastructure Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

I know that it is scalable, and in fact, that is why we chose it. We always have it in mind that in some number of years, you have to scale the solution to something different in terms of architecture.

As it is now, our databases are not big. They are critical, but not large in size. We are not dealing with Big Data.

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Anand Viswanath - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Unimity Solutions

Scalability is one area in which we are very cost-sensitive. We always closely monitor the charges to increase the server scale. It will help us use more space in the DB if there is an economical way for us to pick up larger servers. We have more than six lakh end users.

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HT
Co-Founder/CEO at Grigale LTD

When configured correctly, no scalability issues.

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it_user231711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Telecommunications Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user178848 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer with 51-200 employees

None that I have run into. For really big databases I have always used Oracle.

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YT
Unemployed (previous role was Solutions Specialist, System Integration)

If you are working in the cloud platform then you do have scalability because the cloud platform is usually AWS or GCP, and they provide this kind of scalability. If you get some issues with the query and latency or something like this, that is an issue of scalability and you can just adjust the horizontal or vertical scalability to meet your requirements.

But the company I was working with was a very big company. It's more than several thousand people and they usually have a lot of data that they are going to store in the MySQL database. They gather the data from the SQL database and then transfer it like ETL and you get data from all the different distributed systems and then put them into the centralized MySQL database. After that you're going to visualize this kind of data so that you can use the Power BI or that kind of tool to generate reports or to create a dashboard for the system. This company had its platform on-premises, but right now they are moving these technologies to cloud. That's why I'm talking about the scalability in two different ways cloud and on-prem.

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PN
Oracle Cloud Infra Architect at Wipro Limited

We have been using it for POCs. It has been consistent for a hundred users. Currently, we have three groups that use this, and each group has 20 users.

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HC
Sysad Database Administrator Lead at USSC

We have categorized the amount of data we have as big data, although we haven't really been using it much.

We have 2,000 people in our company, and we have over 100 virtual machines installed with MySQL.

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MR
Senior Database Administrator Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We have 15 customers, but I am not sure of the number of users we have.

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RS
COO at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

For our use-cases, the scalability is fine. We haven't seen any issues and we're processing probably hundreds of millions of rows each day. We're not into the billions or tens of billions, so we're probably a medium-to-low use case.

Most of our instances are single-instance databases, so I haven't had to deal with its clustering capabilities or distributed database feature set.

Our clients vary in size, although we generally operate as a small system inside a major organization.

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it_user578346 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Business Technology at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Yes, other solutions have better features and better performance.

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IR
Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

MySQL is scalable. We didn't scale it via the database tools provided but on the program side. However, it is easy to scale it using the functions provided with the product.

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DO
Business Intelligence Manager at a translation and localization position with 501-1,000 employees

We haven't experienced any issues with scalability.

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it_user1282806 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Platform Engineer at a cloud provider with 51-200 employees

The scalability of the solution is good. We haven't had trouble scaling at all.

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it_user702249 - PeerSpot reviewer
Web Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

There was no issue with scalability.

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CR
Senior Java Developer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

We are using a cluster now, but I don't administrate that. There are thousands of users.

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it_user242553 - PeerSpot reviewer
Academic application support at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did experience a few scalability issues, but we decided to rather go for a bigger server than creating a cluster and that worked out very well.

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it_user279822 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps SRE at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

A lot of manual effort is needed to scale the solution; a lot of room for improvement is there.

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SA
Project Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is not scalable at present. 

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RM
Senior Director IP led Services (PES) at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability of the solution is fine although we haven't tested it too much. 

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VR
SVP Technology and Head of India at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

MySQL is very scalable, so I don't expect any challenges.

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GO
CEO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Scalability is good enough.

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it_user158343 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Architect at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

The version of the product with free licensing does not offer stellar scalability support. We only use these tools for solutions that do not require such a level of scalability.

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it_user369420 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Tester & SQA at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

There have been no issues scaling it.

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AV
Information Systems Computer System Controller at a insurance company with 11-50 employees

There are approximately 300 users using the solution in my organization. 

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VR
Full Stack Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is very flexible. It could be because I'm familiar with MySQL.

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it_user3405 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

If the user sets up DB up using MySQL Cluster (creates a grid type of design), then we find the solution from a hardware perspective using NVMe, NVMe-oF, 10GE network connections, and 32-100GB of DDR4 memory (dependent upon customer requirements). 

Scalability can be initiated using high-speed connections across IPv6 connections (IPSec AES-256 ESP/AH VPN connections without purchasing VPN concentrators — this can be done at the network layer).

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it_user208659 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

 It's pretty scalable.

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it_user722220 - PeerSpot reviewer
MySQL DBA

No. Not so far. I didn't see any problems in its scalability.

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it_user216924 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist / Consultant with 501-1,000 employees

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user755235 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at RC Ghosh Group of Companies

MySQL is not easily scalable on cost effective consumer grade hardware.

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it_user755103 - PeerSpot reviewer
Open Source Database Consultant

Always due to architecture, data storage, and data requesting irrelevant strategies.

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it_user492180 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Technology at a tech services company
JI
System Analyst and Team Lead at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is scalable. We have plans to increase the number of users. 

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RP
IT Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

For what we have been using the solution for it is scalable. However, it could be more scalable.

We have a lot of customers using this solution with more projects coming up. We have overall approximately 500 users using this solution.

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AA
CEO at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

Yes, the many index restrictions in case of partitioning the tables.

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it_user450789 - PeerSpot reviewer
Member of Technical Staff at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Sharding is relatively straightforward.

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it_user424227 - PeerSpot reviewer
SENIOR DEVELOPER at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user304542 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Lead Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We code for horizontal scaling and hence the only thing that becomes important is the number of connections. The data can be easily replicated in real time on Amazon replicas themselves. We have a dynamic solution to read data from replicas and not from a master instance. That is how we scale.

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it_user436011 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

We're able to scale without issues.

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GS
CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We did not plan to increase the usage of this solution at this time.

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KB
Team Leader Presales at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

It is very scalable. There are third-party solutions to assist with scaling but that may cost money, or it is available in the Commercial edition of MySQL.

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it_user582915 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Manager at a tech services company

So far, so good due to limited clients at the moment.

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it_user703740 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user130032 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
AS
EUC Techical Operation at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is really easy to scale. We have around 20 to 40 users who use it regularly.

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it_user649608 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager

Some problems with big table operations, and a struggle to keep the servers responding in peak situations.

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it_user346572 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at Nubity Inc. at a tech services company

Yes. In large databases, response times are high.

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DM
IT at a construction company with 201-500 employees

For our needs, it's sufficient.

We have 10 users in our organization.

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it_user344865 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It’s not easy to scale horizontally, don’t think it was ever meant for it. Lacks ease of installation and continuous usage.

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it_user229656 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Staff Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

It does not scale well when there are concurrent requests. Making changes to binlog and transaction log settings improves scalability at the cost of reliability.

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it_user369264 - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Technician Intern at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We've been able to scale it without issue.

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it_user359547 - PeerSpot reviewer
Expert Advisor at a mining and metals company with 51-200 employees

Not really, as our DB was small. With time, we got version issues, as our DB engine was so old and not updated.

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it_user244500 - PeerSpot reviewer
Constructor of the computer systems at a security firm with 51-200 employees

I currently do not need to scale on my network.

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CL
Data Analyst at a tech company with 51-200 employees

It is not scalable. We have around 10 to 15 web developers who are currently using it.

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it_user677721 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Technician at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Yes, the binary log replication process in a cluster environment has issues processing data as fast as it arrives.

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it_user285990 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Operations Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Currently no, as we use our own load balancer to enable us to scale to any level.

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it_user417285 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Production Support Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

There were some scalability issues.

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it_user239649 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user602400 - PeerSpot reviewer
Intern at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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