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 product has valuable security features."
"The availability and the easy to use feature is the most valuable. The documentation is also good."
"The initial setup and deployment are simple."
"The best feature of CockroachDB is the ability to keep the nodes in different locations."
"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 most valuable features of the solution are its resiliency features and the geo-partitioning capabilities."
"The subset of SQL that my client is using is completely supported."
"CockroachDB is highly reliable."
"I like the simplistic view of MySQL to build custom queries and things like that as compared to SQL Server, which seems more cluttered. SQL Server has a query analyzer. MySQL pretty much does the same, and performance-wise, it has less overhead for connecting to our ERP system. It seems more responsive and cleaner. With MySQL, you get what you need without any overbloating, for which Microsoft is known. That's why they have so many constant security patches for everything because there is so much stuff, which degrades performance."
"MySQL is an easy-to-use solution that provides stability, reliability, flexibility, performance, security, and high availability."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We use it as a data store and from that perspective, we get everything we need."
"It is easy to use. It is simple to implement, which makes it suitable for our projects because we have deadlines. MySQL is also open-source, which is another plus point."
"The product is flexible and easy to use."
"The replication feature is the most valuable. We are replicating our servers."
"The most valuable feature of MySQL is its reliability and performance."
"I find the serverless offer a bit confusing."
"The initial setup and pricing could be improved."
"We are looking for more features to support distributed high availability and geo-partitioning."
"Cockroach does not support all types of protocols. I need to improve it myself to support a CouchDB on my network."
"The platform could be more extensible."
"CockroachDB needs to improve store processes."
"The product must improve its disaster recovery features."
"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."
"Even for the best database, we always want the database to perform much better, so we wish MySQL would be much better, in terms of performance."
"This solution needs to be improved when it comes to working with desktop applications on the developer side."
"While utilizing a comparable algorithm, is noted to be sensitive, especially when configuring the inner device."
"MySQL tutorials and guides could be improved. Often they are too complex for someone with no database experience to understand."
"It can have better monitoring. In addition, the enterprise manager should be able to cater to more than one virtual machine. Currently, you need one license per server. It seems a bit too much to get one license for one enterprise manager. I hope the enterprise manager for MySQL can accommodate more virtual machines for MySQL."
"The user interface could be more user friendly. Mainly because most of the times we see black and white digital lines. Something like Python."
"When it comes to supporting big data, there is space to improve upon the database engines that are supported by MySQL."
"There should be more tools to manage the on-premises version and more automation features."
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.
See our list of best Relational Databases Tools vendors.
We monitor all Relational Databases Tools reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.