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Oracle MySQL Cloud Service vs SingleStore 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
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (9th), Relational Databases Tools (12th)
SingleStore
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (12th), Vector Databases (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Databases solutions, they serve different purposes. Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is designed for Open Source Databases and holds a mindshare of 1.7%, up 0.4% compared to last year.
SingleStore, on the other hand, focuses on Database as a Service (DBaaS), holds 3.4% mindshare, up 1.7% since last year.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service1.7%
PostgreSQL13.3%
MySQL10.5%
Other74.5%
Open Source Databases
Database as a Service (DBaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SingleStore3.4%
Amazon RDS11.9%
MongoDB Atlas11.4%
Other73.3%
Database as a Service (DBaaS)
 

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.
Kelvin  Ben - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
Real-time analytics has transformed daily decisions and delivers fast dashboards from streaming data
The best features SingleStore offers include fast data recovery and data compression by 80 percent. Having the information in sheets helps me to process the information quickly. Simplicity in T-SQL is another aspect I appreciate. Data recovery and sheet-based processing help my team on a day-to-day basis by enabling us to handle information efficiently. I would like to add that the data compression by 80 percent helps us in an excellent way since we are very fast in obtaining the data for our dashboards and the compression of the information is great. SingleStore has impacted my organization positively by enabling us to run low-latency analytics and model-driven use cases at scale, which is quite difficult for OLAP and OLTP databases alone. It has been very helpful because our internal clients are happy to have the data and make data-driven decisions easily. Making decisions based on data within a two-hour delay to the transactional database is excellent since we went from twenty-four hours to two hours. I think the best contribution is decision-making with data that is close to reality. Reducing that delay from twenty-four hours to two hours has significantly affected my team and business outcomes by increasing productivity. We have been able to serve all our customers, and they are very happy. We can deliver to them on time.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"MySQL is very stable and works beautifully with large amounts of data."
"It is an established open-source database with a vast array of resources available, ensuring you can learn everything needed."
"Having multiple reliable databases has improved our business greatly because having a robust database is so integral to the company in general."
"The scalability of the database is absolutely guaranteed by the new features."
"The access to a suite of management and administration tools that simplify tasks such as database provisioning, configuration, and monitoring."
"The solution overall is very, very good, with good integration with other databases and it adds new features often."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is flexible and is an open-source product."
"MemSQL supports the MySQL protocol, and many functions are similar, so the learning curve is very short."
"The product can automatically reinstall and reconfigure in case of a shutdown."
"MemSQL is a very powerful database."
"SingleStore's speed and scalability have made a significant difference for our team, as we scaled without major performance issues and reports, dashboards, and data segments that previously took much longer to generate are now produced in real time, which overall improves the user experience and helps teams access insights faster for operational and decision-making."
"SingleStore has impacted my organization positively by enabling us to run low-latency analytics and model-driven use cases at scale, which is quite difficult for OLAP and OLTP databases alone."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create pipelines, streamline and extract data from the pipelines."
"The paramount advantage is the exceptional speed."
"It's a distributed relational database, so it does not have a single server, it has multiple servers. Its architecture itself is fast because it has multiple nodes to distribute the workload and process large amounts of data."
 

Cons

"The product has many bugs."
"Oracle MySQL Cloud Service's scalability is an area of concern that can be better."
"There could be more courses where the people could learn more easily how to use the tool."
"Integrating business intelligence or NLP solutions would help us save time and would prevent us from having to take a deep dive. Data problems seem to multiply on the system when you interact with it."
"Integrating business intelligence or NLP solutions would help us save time and would prevent us from having to take a deep dive. Data problems seem to multiply on the system when you interact with it. Automation would save a lot of man-hours."
"Sometimes MySQL does upgrades on the server. When we are still using the old server and when they integrate the upgrade, they don't carry along some of the old syntaxes; the versions don't sync."
"Improvement could be made in the workflow, particularly when it comes to making changes or implementing certain functions."
"It requires a significant amount of expertise and effort to manage, especially when dealing with substantial volumes of data."
"It is not the optimal choice for direct data collection through queries, and it's more suited for aggregation tasks."
"We don't get good discounts in Pakistan."
"For new customers, it's very tough to start. Their documentation isn't organized, and there's no online training available. SingleStore is working on it, but that's a major drawback."
"There should be more pipelines available because I think that if MemSQL can connect to other services, that would be great."
"Poor key distribution can significantly impact performance, requiring a backward approach in design rather than adding tables incrementally."
"Having the ability to migrate servers using a single command would be extremely beneficial."
"SingleStore is very well at the current stage, but I see room for improvement in ease of administration, monitoring, and reducing troubleshooting time."
"I have noticed that SingleStore can be improved because the integration of SingleStore with DataDog is not good."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 free since it is an open-source tool."
"It is an open-source product."
"Oracle has a better licensing model compared to its competitors."
"The solution’s paid plans are expensive."
"The license is expensive."
"The product is expensive."
"SingleStore is a bit expensive."
"Using it for analytical purposes can be cost-effective in the long run, especially in terms of infrastructure."
"The product's licensing is not expensive. It is comparable."
"They have two main options: cloud installation and bare-metal installation, each with different pricing models."
"I would advise users to try the free 128GB version."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
University
7%
Financial Services Firm
30%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
5%
 

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 Business5
Large Enterprise5
 

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 SingleStore DB?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it can be a bit expensive for startups, but for my organization, the cost is affordable and cost-effective.
What needs improvement with SingleStore DB?
I have noticed that SingleStore can be improved because the integration of SingleStore with DataDog is not good. The data which is sent to DataDog sometimes does not match with the SingleStore dash...
What is your primary use case for SingleStore DB?
My main use case for SingleStore is for our data retention and load management. We have infrastructure wherein the user's data are used for quick search, which means the searching functionality in ...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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