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.
"The feature I found most valuable is activity performance."
"I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten since it has been running flawlessly."
"For sure, the solution is very stable."
"MySQL is easy and convenient for me. I don't need to rely on anyone. I can write the code and extract the information. It is fast if you know how to use it. The solution is not expensive, and most of the developers know how to use it. It is easy to create tables. The solution is stable and has good performance. The connection with AWS gives regular updates, which is manual otherwise and a nightmare."
"MySQL gives us a very user-friendly workspace in which to query the database."
"The tool is open-source and there is no cost involved in its use."
"It has a lot of features. The RDBMS, consistency, and multi-user features are valuable."
"MySQL is an easy-to-use solution that provides stability, reliability, flexibility, performance, security, and high availability."
"The functionality of the solution is excellent."
"Teradata can be deployed on-premise, on the cloud, or in a virtual machine, which means customers can move without having to create their architecture all over again."
"Parallel processing features have helped to easily dump any size of data and retrieve data with great performance."
"The two types of partitioning have been very significant for us - row and columnar partitioning."
"Teradata's capabilities enhance data management efficiency, support scalability, and contribute to faster query performance."
"The most valuable features are the large volume of data and the structuring of the data to optimize it and get very optimal data warehouse solutions for customers."
"It effectively has allowed us to remove over 20 portion copies of the data sets on other DB platforms for real-time operational reporting purposes."
"It handles large amounts of information with a linear performance increase, in relation to a HW investment."
"It could be a little bit simpler to use."
"The integration with other systems can be improved as can the integration between other databases."
"The product is a little bit complex and it is difficult to find sufficient documentation."
"MySQL needs improvements on its diagnostic features."
"The only service which could be improved is its usability. The entire user experience needs to be revamped to meet the 2018 design standards."
"The replication needs improvement. It's becoming a native cloud product like Oracle DB or Cockroach DB."
"When I run into issues, I really have to research how to fix them."
"From a user perspective, the initial setup could be simplified a bit."
"Sometimes the large injestion takes days to load data, and some of our stored procedures take two to three days."
"I think the UI is not there yet. It could be improved by being more user-friendly."
"Teradata is a bit late for the cloud."
"Teradata could improve by being less complicated. There are some aspects that are not available on the Unix server and a Unix system is required to access some data, such as in case of an emergency."
"Since I was working on the very basic, legacy systems, the memory thing was always a challenge. If Teradata is moving to the cloud, the space constraint or the memory issue that my company generally faces will eventually resolve, in time. What I'd like to see in the next release of Teradata is that it becomes full-fledged on the cloud, apart from better connectivity to various systems. For example, if I have to read or include a Python script, if I write some basic codes, I should be able to read even unstructured data. I know that it's not supported even in Snowflake, but at least semi-structured data support, if that can be a little more enhanced, that would be good."
"Teradata can improve the way it handles big data and unstructured data."
"Teradata's pricing is quite high compared to Redshift, Synapse, or GCP alternatives."
"It's primarily designed for big projects and therefore, the pricing is pretty high. It's not suitable for smaller companies."
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, SAP HANA and SQL Server, 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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