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Oracle MySQL Cloud Service vs Qdrant comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Oracle MySQL Cloud Service
Ranking in Open Source Databases
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (14th)
Qdrant
Ranking in Open Source Databases
9th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Vector Databases (3rd), AI Data Analysis (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is 1.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qdrant is 4.5%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qdrant4.5%
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service1.9%
Other93.6%
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.
Chirag Morajkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
Building accurate no-code resume screeners has saved weeks in document search workflows
I see room for improvement in Qdrant based on what another platform called Weaviate offers. Qdrant provides an excellent vector database with a solid searching method. However, it could elevate its offering by integrating embedding features. Currently, for the workflow automation I build, I rely on other platforms for embedding, so incorporating this feature directly in Qdrant Cloud would eliminate the need to depend on external solutions. 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. I think increasing that inactivity window in the free tier would be beneficial, as I have faced limitations due to this seven-day inactivity rule, requiring me to reset up the cloud after its termination.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Oracle MySQL Cloud Service handles data easily."
"The access to a suite of management and administration tools that simplify tasks such as database provisioning, configuration, and monitoring."
"Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is easy to use and implement."
"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."
"My advice to anybody who is researching this solution is that it is a better option than other solutions."
"The simplicity of the solution is very good; it's a straightforward solution and makes for a very good cloud option."
"The stability of the solution is very good. I wouldn't have used it for the past seven years if I was not satisfied."
"It is an established open-source database with a vast array of resources available, ensuring you can learn everything needed."
"We saw a clear return on investment from Qdrant, particularly in the engineering time saved and the empowerment of team members to handle self-service tasks instead of reducing headcount."
"Qdrant is an excellent vector database that anyone would want to use with RAG AI."
"Qdrant has reduced our response time to less than one second for our 128 KB token sizes, and we are satisfied with that performance."
"Qdrant has positively impacted my organization by consuming much less time than building systems through coding."
"Using Qdrant's hybrid search capability has improved my search results."
"An accuracy boost was definitely observed from 45 to 50% using Faiss to around 85 to 95% using Qdrant, and the users are really happy as they are getting suggested really good schemes that would take a lot of time to find."
 

Cons

"Improvement could be made in the workflow, particularly when it comes to making changes or implementing certain functions."
"They could include more advanced features like clustering and replication in the Oracle databases."
"The solution should offer memory management."
"MySQL should have some kind of native query browser. If it could come with a built-in connector."
"It requires a significant amount of expertise and effort to manage, especially when dealing with substantial volumes of data."
"Oracle MySQL Cloud Service should be easier to replicate and integrate into further solutions."
"The support is not that great. They're not really supporting directly anymore and relying on experts to figure out technical issues."
"It is difficult to do any coding with this solution."
"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."
"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 lot of our work is agentic right now, and we have also segmented the content to be logical, so there's not a lot of vector search anymore."
"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 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."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is expensive."
"The solution’s paid plans are expensive."
"The product is free since it is an open-source tool."
"It is an open-source product."
"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."
"Oracle has a better licensing model compared to its competitors."
"The license is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
 

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 Business8
 

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?
Licensing posed no issues, as Qdrant is open-source software with no upfront fees. Initially, the setup cost was low since we utilized a self-hosted model on a small cloud VM. However, as we added ...
What needs improvement with Qdrant?
While Qdrant is an exceptionally fast and efficient search engine within vector bases, our engineering team faced operational challenges during its adoption. Architectural complexity was a key fric...
What is your primary use case for Qdrant?
I have been using Qdrant for almost one and a half years. This was actually one of the first vector databases that we picked up in our organization. We started using the RAG modules to create a per...
 

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