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Oracle MySQL Cloud Service vs Qdrant comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle MySQL Cloud Service
Ranking in Open Source Databases
12th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (11th)
Qdrant
Ranking in Open Source Databases
5th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Vector Databases (2nd), AI Data Analysis (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is 2.3%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qdrant is 4.4%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qdrant4.4%
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service2.3%
Other93.3%
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

RS
Director at Adamos Tecnologia
Efficiently manages extensive datasets with rapid connections and wide tool support
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is easy to manage and install. It does not require a DBA for management. The connections are very fast and it supports several thousand users simultaneously without any issues. New connections do not hang server operations. As soon as new releases are put out, they work as expected. Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is supported by every vendor and tool, including architectural, integration, and generation tools, offering wide protocol support. This makes Oracle MySQL Cloud Service a valuable solution.
Pawel Cislo - PeerSpot reviewer
MLOps Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Adaptive assistant has delivered faster grounded answers and has reduced token costs significantly
The main limitations I notice come down to developer experience and native features rather than performance. Building hybrid retrieval and fusion pipelines still requires considerable manual orchestration and code. Having more built-in multi-query fusion strategies natively inside Qdrant would be a significant time-saver. Additionally, managing dynamic metadata schemas and tracking index build progress during bulk ingest could be more transparent in the web UI. To make things easier for developers, Qdrant could provide more native tools for managing payload schema evolution over time. As metadata needs change in production RAG systems, updating existing payloads across large collections currently requires custom migration scripts. Built-in schema versioning and simpler automated index testing during CI/CD would make running Qdrant in rapidly evolving production environments even smoother. I rate Qdrant 9 out of 10 because its speed, sub-15 millisecond retrieval, and single-stage payload filtering make it top-tier for production RAG pipelines. I deduct one point mainly for developer experience. Setting up multi-query fusion still requires extra boilerplate code, payload metadata schema updates require custom migration scripts, and real-time visibility into HNSW graph indexing progress during bulk ingest could be improved in the web UI.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Having multiple reliable databases has improved our business greatly because having a robust database is so integral to the company in general."
"The access to a suite of management and administration tools that simplify tasks such as database provisioning, configuration, and monitoring."
"MySQL is very stable and works beautifully with large amounts of data."
"Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is easy to use and implement."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Oracle MySQL Cloud Service handles data easily."
"All the features are excellent."
"MySQL is a centralized RDBMS in itself, and you don't have the overkill of having the full Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server. It's ideal, and it helps with the developer console. It has three versions for developers. It's a very good tool for open source."
"The advice I would give to others looking into using Qdrant is that it is very good and they can always rely on it for high performance, especially for local AI development and implementation."
"Qdrant is an excellent vector database that anyone would want to use with RAG AI."
"Qdrant has positively impacted my organization by significantly improving our RAG system's latency, cost-efficiency, and accuracy."
"Qdrant has positively impacted my organization mainly by reducing usage costs for AI because in the older system, in order to get the context, we were just dumping everything into the system, which would inflate the cost of the API, whatever AI we were using, such as OpenAI or Claude."
"Using Qdrant's hybrid search capability has improved my search results."
"Qdrant is a good and scalable vector database, and it is free."
"Qdrant has positively impacted my organization by consuming much less time than building systems through coding."
"Qdrant is one of the best vector databases out there that is also open source."
 

Cons

"The product has many bugs."
"There could be improvements, particularly in Firebird, where the indexing is limited to just a single B-tree index, leading to poor performance for large-scale queries."
"Sometimes, we face syntax issues with the solution."
"The tool’s stability must be improved."
"Oracle MySQL Cloud Service's scalability is an area of concern that can be better."
"It is difficult to do any coding with this solution."
"There might be minor improvements, however, I can’t identify any particular areas for improvement at the moment."
"The technical support is in need of improvement."
"There can always be improvements needed for Qdrant, but I do not want to add anything at this time."
"The file system lock in Qdrant prevents the API and scripts from hitting it directly, and to surpass this limitation, I have to run Qdrant client as a service, which incurs additional costs for running it continuously, so if something about that could be done, it would be really amazing."
"The area for improvement in Qdrant is its clustering capability. While it has clustering functionality, it is not easy to set up, and not everyone can configure the clustering, so there is room for improvement in the clustering configuration."
"Qdrant is pretty good overall, but it can be improved. For example, the UI could be better, and it has pretty much very generic features that every other vector database provides."
"One of the key limitations is that Qdrant does not have built-in role-based access control, and while being self-hosted is a benefit, it can also be improved."
"A pain point I have encountered was the inactive expiration of the cloud created for certain projects; if the cloud is not used for a week, it gets terminated, which is frustrating."
"Architectural complexity was a key friction point, as our primary database was set in Supabase, necessitating synchronization of two separate systems for user data, permissions, and states."
"The main limitations I notice come down to developer experience and native features rather than performance."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an open-source product."
"Oracle has a better licensing model compared to its competitors."
"The solution’s paid plans are expensive."
"The product is free since it is an open-source tool."
"The license is expensive."
"While the core solution itself is not exorbitant, the support services are associated with a significant maintenance fee, often ranging from twenty to thirty percent."
"The product is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
16%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle MySQL Cloud Service?
I have never paid for the full version of Oracle MySQL Cloud Service. We use the free version or the version available in RDS ( /products/amazon-rds-reviews ) from AWS ( /products/amazon-aws-review...
What needs improvement with Oracle MySQL Cloud Service?
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service should be easier to replicate and integrate into further solutions. Although it targets Linux and UNIX environments, its performance is not as optimized on Windows platfo...
What is your primary use case for Oracle MySQL Cloud Service?
I work in finance, financial services, banking, and financial services.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qdrant?
I find Qdrant's pricing and licensing extremely straightforward and cost-effective. The core product is open source under Apache 2.0, so initial experimentation and local integration testing co...
What needs improvement with Qdrant?
I do not have any suggestions for how Qdrant could be improved. So far, I like what has been done and I have used it several times. I have nothing to add to it now, and I do not wish to add more ab...
What is your primary use case for Qdrant?
My main use case for Qdrant is local AI development. A specific example of how I'm using Qdrant in my development work is that I use it for my RAG development using N8n. In my drug development ...
 

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