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Oracle MySQL Cloud Service vs SQL Server 2014 Express comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle MySQL Cloud Service
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
15th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (11th)
SQL Server 2014 Express
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
30th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

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.
Rajneesh Prajapati - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Rpa Consultant at Accely Consulting
Reliable data storage has boosted automation logs and now needs fewer limits for growing workloads
The best features SQL Server 2014 Express offers are that it is free and reliable. The biggest advantage is that it is free and very stable, which makes it ideal for small scale and non-critical workloads. It integrates easily with .NET applications, automation tools, and reporting solutions. Setting up the installation and basic configuration is straightforward even for a small team. The integration with .NET applications and automation tools helps my team and projects by allowing me to record and store large amounts of data quickly. It processes very fast, stores very fast, reads the data, searches the data, and executes queries very quickly. However, in Excel, it does not work when the data is large. SQL Server 2014 Express has impacted my organization positively because it is time-saving. When I try to read Excel with a large amount of data, it is slow and sometimes it does not open because there is a lot of data. Sometimes Excel crashes. When I use SQL Server 2014 Express, it is very quick and time-saving, properly visible, and I can track where the data is breaking. It is reliable and cost-efficient for small use cases, but scalability and feature limitations prevent a higher rating.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The access to a suite of management and administration tools that simplify tasks such as database provisioning, configuration, and monitoring."
"The most valuable aspect of the product is data migration."
"Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is easy to use and implement."
"Overall, I rate Oracle MySQL Cloud Service as a nine out of ten."
"Oracle MySQL Cloud Service handles data easily."
"The product is good for tuning."
"It is an established open-source database with a vast array of resources available, ensuring you can learn everything needed."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"SQL Server 2014 Express has positively impacted my organization by improving my knowledge in SQL coding and making my work faster."
"SQL Server 2014 Express has impacted my organization positively because it is time-saving."
 

Cons

"Improvement could be made in the workflow, particularly when it comes to making changes or implementing certain functions."
"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. 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."
"MySQL should have some kind of native query browser. If it could come with a built-in connector."
"They could include more advanced features like clustering and replication in the Oracle databases."
"In a production environment, upgrading from a lower to an upper version is a very long process that needs to be improved."
"Oracle MySQL Cloud Service's scalability is an area of concern that can be better."
"SQL Server 2014 Express can be improved as there are some resource limits. There are limitations on database size, memory, and CPU usage which restrict scalability."
"SQL Server 2014 Express can be improved by increasing the maximum 10 gigabytes for a database, as it would be better if this limit were increased."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution’s paid plans are expensive."
"It is an open-source product."
"The product is expensive."
"The license is expensive."
"The product is free since it is an open-source tool."
"Oracle has a better licensing model compared to its competitors."
"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."
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Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise11
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle MySQL Cloud Service?
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service handles data easily.
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 needs improvement with SQL Server 2014 Express?
SQL Server 2014 Express can be improved by increasing the maximum 10 gigabytes for a database, as it would be better if this limit were increased.
What is your primary use case for SQL Server 2014 Express?
My main use case for SQL Server 2014 Express is querying with SQL code. I use SQL Server 2014 Express in my work for analyzing the data set, so I can learn how to use SQL code and how to correctly ...
What advice do you have for others considering SQL Server 2014 Express?
The advice I would give to others looking into using SQL Server 2014 Express is to be careful about the size of the database. I would rate this product a 7.
 

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