We performed a comparison between MariaDB and MySQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Open Source Databases solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a very easy product to set up."
"One of the great features of MariaDB is its scalability. It's easy to handle even with large databases."
"MariaDB is scalable."
"It is a scalable solution. It easily scales up and scales down."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is a cloud-based tool, so it is pretty fast."
"It is a stable solution."
"I am editing."
"The solution is very stable. It was originally built under MySQL. It has a similar level of stability."
"I like the JSON stuff."
"I would use MySQL for a medium project, with around 1,00,000 hundred thousand users, because of the indexing and stored procedures."
"The tool is open-source and there is no cost involved in its use."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It's a good tool, a good database platform."
"A lot of the software components have been trialed and tested for often more than 10 years."
"I’m not sure if it can scale."
"It does not have tools for debugging procedures and functions."
"There is room for improvement in terms of security."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements in the scalability and redundancy features."
"Lacks time series data and additional driving support would be helpful."
"The solution should do some fine-tuning on maybe the transaction per second so that users can get more than they can on the Microsoft SQL Server."
"There is not much support available."
"MariaDB's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"MySQL tutorials and guides could be improved. Often they are too complex for someone with no database experience to understand."
"It is not as powerful as SQL Server. It can be more powerful. It is not scalable and has certain limitations, which is not the case with SQL Server."
"I would like to see more integrations of the solution with other platforms and improve the support on different data types."
"It could be a little bit simpler to use."
"The licensing of the solution is on the expensive side."
"We want to continue using MySQL but it merged with Oracle and the scalage changed."
"The full-text search feature must be improved."
"The workbench could be improved. In particular, error messages can be improved, which are horrific and completely unhelpful. I'd like to see improved parsing of errors. When you write SQL and it crashes, it usually is something completely irrelevant and not helpful. I've started to use GPT 3.5 for finding out how to do things. I got to do something a bit different, and that I found to be very useful. If there was some way to tie it into one of the new AI tools, that would probably be a good idea."
MariaDB is ranked 4th in Open Source Databases with 52 reviews while MySQL is ranked 1st in Open Source Databases with 142 reviews. MariaDB is rated 8.2, while MySQL is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MariaDB writes "Easy to deploy, cost-effective, and integrates seamlessly with other products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MySQL writes "Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups". MariaDB is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL and Percona Server, whereas MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, Teradata, SAP HANA and SQL Server. See our MariaDB vs. MySQL report.
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