MySQL Stability
We face certain integration issues, especially when we integrate the database with security solutions like IBM QRadar, which affects database performance.
View full review »It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. Once the data increases, the tool will face some issues.
This specific version of this MySQL has been battle tested for a long time. Any issues are known issues and we pretty much don't have any problems when they're in production. So it's very stable. When we picked simple switch demand, again, these things came up. But it was quickly resolved. So I guess that's the benefit of going with open source and seeing all those problems ahead of time in source code and having the ability to fix them.
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MySQL
April 2025

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Ravi Upadhyayula
Senior Consultant at Tata Consultancy
Stability is crucial, and it's influenced not just by the inherent features of the database system, but also by how the application team writes queries. If queries are poorly written or not optimized, it can affect stability significantly. While logging can help, improper usage, such as logging entire tables instead of specific fields, can also impact stability. Therefore, ensuring stability requires a holistic approach that considers both the database infrastructure and how the application interacts with it.
View full review »The product's stability is high.
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Ravi Kant-Sharma
Technical Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
MySQL solution is overall stable. I did not see any challenges.
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I haven't experienced any bad things.
View full review »In my past two years of MySQL experience, I found no bugs or breakdowns. It works completely fine.
View full review »I would rate the stability of this solution an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best. We have a team of three DBAs supporting and maintaining this product.
View full review »MySQL has good stability.
I rate the solution a six or seven out of ten for stability.
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Satishbabu Gunukula, Oracle ACE
Sr. Tech Systems Architect at Intuitive
MySQL is good for small to medium sizes. Also, it has built-in security features.
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MohamedKhalifa
Database and Middleware Technical Head at Riyadh Municipality
When MySQL is involved in the metadata, it never gets down. It's very stable.
View full review »It's reliable. I never lost any data, which you anyways shouldn't. I'd rate it a ten out of ten in terms of stability because we never had the slightest problem. We are not in a challenging environment, but I haven't had any problems.
View full review »The solution is stable.
View full review »I would rate its stability capabilities eight out of ten.
View full review »MySQL is reliable. If you are talking about it in terms of relational databases, MySQL is pretty stable. If you want to go ahead with a quite secure database like any PCI database or a customer-related database or even financial data, it's still feasible to migrate to MySQL.
View full review »It has very good stability. We haven't had any issues with it.
View full review »MySQL is a stable solution.
View full review »MySQL is stable and fast.
View full review »I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
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James Kulundu
Data Analyst at KPMG East Africa
I rate the tool’s stability an eight out of ten. We can create a database user schema. It's quite easy to update and remove in case anything happens. Backing up is quite easy. We have security features for the backup.
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Arief Gunawan
Product manager at Metrodata Electronics Tbk PT
In terms of stability I think MySQL is categorized as a stable product. We have customers who are using MySQL as its database as an online application and it's like an online store. So it means that the work is quite heavy but we are using MySQL for it.
I would rate the stability a seven out of ten. It does break down a little at times.
View full review »I haven’t seen any problems with the solution’s stability and I would rate the stability a ten on ten. It is a very stable tool.
View full review »The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable in terms of performance.
View full review »We haven’t encountered any serious stability issues with MySQL.
However, as with all systems, you need to keep your database “tidy”, making sure to optimize it, clean it and avoid corrupt files.
For critical projects, it may be wise to have redundancy by having two servers synced all the time.
View full review »MySQL is stable and continuously improves concerning databases. It is advantageous for projects in this area.
View full review »I would rate the stability around seven to eight. They should improve the stability.
View full review »MySQL is a stable tool. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
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goforitandy
IT Consultant at Woohoogeeks
MySQL has a reputation for stability, and that is one of the reasons it is so popular. Because it is easily available, just works, and can be integrated reasonably easily into other software, it is often the default platform of choice.
It has been around for years, and chances are it will be around for the next 10 years or so, as new versions continue to evolve.
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LeonMofor
Ingénieur Etude et Développement / Technical Lead Java at ATOS
It is stable, and in fact, it's more stable than PostgreSQL. Also, recovery is faster.
View full review »The solution has proven to be quite stable. We haven't experienced any bugs or glitches.
View full review »I would rate MySQL's stability a ten out of ten.
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Amos Babatunde Jayesimi
Officer IT data processing at Stanbic Bank Ghana, Ltd.
I rate the solution's stability a ten.
View full review »I rate the stability of MySQL an eight out of ten.
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Muhammad Nurazhan Moin
Senior Web Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees
For the scale at which my systems are operating, the software is stable. We are at most dealing with less than 10 million rows of data across all tables, and concurrent connections under 200 at our peak loads.
View full review »Its stability is quite good. There are no bugs or glitches. it doesn't crash or freeze.
View full review »I have found the development tools to be highly stable in MySQL.
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Andre Visser
Technical Director at Metrofibre Networx
I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten since it has been running flawlessly.
View full review »I rate the stability of MySQL a ten out of ten.
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CharlesGuise-Brown
Clinical Data Management Principal at Vertex-in-Healthcare
The solution is a very stable product. We have had no reason to be concerned about its stability.
View full review »It is very stable.
View full review »I’ve had an issue where an InnoDB database grew too big and got corrupted. I was unable to recover it because there was not enough space on the server either. Be sure to have enough space.
View full review »It is a very stable solution. I deployed the product six years ago, and it still works fine.
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Ariful Mondal
Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH
It's a stable solution.
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Lawrence Katuruza
Systems Administrator at Dairibord
This product is stable. I'm very satisfied with the performance.
View full review »The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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Haitham Elwany
IT Infrastructure & Data Platform Sr. Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have not had any problems with stability.
View full review »The stability of MySQL is good.
View full review »We have optimized and stabilized the solution over a period of eight to six months.
View full review »The stability is really good. I haven't had any issues with it.
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ARJUNMarya
Enterprise Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would say that MySQL is definitely stable, but its scalability has yet to be tested. I cannot say right now.
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Hector Cuna
Sysad Database Administrator Lead at USSC
It is stable.
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Rehana Parvin
Database Administrator at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
There were no issues with stability
View full review »My impression of the stability of this solution is that it is quite good.
View full review »Everything that works with MySQL is stable. If it's a bug, it's due to the developer who has miswritten a piece of code. The code itself is perfect. It's the application of people who attempt to make changes where the issues come in.
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ZelalemGedefie
Senior System Administrator at Debre Markos University
The solution is stable.
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Deepak Bansal
Founder at Art World Web Solutions
The solution is stable but there is an issue with memory consumption at times.
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Karel Van Der Walt
Data Architect at ACPAS Loan Management Software
It is stable.
View full review »It could be more stable.
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Hetul Patel
Senior Data Analyst at Charutarhealth Org
It is stable. We are not dealing with a huge database. Our database is not more than 1 TB, so we didn't find any problem.
View full review »I've had no problems with stability and its recovery processing, error processing, and things along those lines have been fine. We always use Java applications and the JDBC drivers work fine.
I haven't had any issues at all with its reporting or its transaction processing, or anything else.
View full review »No, it is rock solid.
View full review »The stability could be better. It's not as stable as I would prefer it to be.
It was originally designed as freeware, as an open-source project, and the community wrote the solution. However, they've made it worse over time.
That said, the performance is pretty good.
View full review »No issues.
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SaifNan
Director at BAB
I rate the tool’s stability a nine out of ten. The stability is good.
View full review »The stability of MySQL is good.
View full review »The solution works extremely well. It is easy to install and works on any platform. The price is good because we utilize various versions of the software/DB.
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OmidKoushki
Solution Architect at KIAN company
When it comes to stability SQL server is better than MySQL. This is an area they could improve.
View full review »MySQL is a very stable product.
View full review »The stability is good. Neither we or our clients have had to deal with bugs, glitches or crashes. Everyone's been satisfied with it. Stability is one of its best features.
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Haim Tzadok
Co-Founder/CEO at Grigale LTD
When configured correctly, no stability issues.
View full review »There were no stability issues.
View full review »There were no stability issues.
No, MySQL has always been a stable database. If there are sufficient resources on the server to run the database it will do fine.
View full review »The solution is stable.
View full review »It is a stable RDBMS. There is no doubt about that.
View full review »So far, it has been pretty stable and I haven't had any problems. We plan to continue using it in the future.
View full review »My customers haven't mentioned having any problems with stability.
View full review »We have seen the corruption of data in replication when used with filters and also, with the growing data response time dwindles.
View full review »I have found the free version to be stable.
View full review »There were no issues with stability.
View full review »The stability is fine.
View full review »It is very stable.
View full review »As with any good DBMS, MySQL requires periodic DBA maintenance. If you leave a MySQL database with no supervision of a DBA for enough time, files become too fragmented and they may turn corrupt beyond rescue.
View full review »No. Not on the MySQL site.
View full review »The solution is very stable.
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Azis Susetio
EUC Techical Operation at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is stable.
View full review »Pretty much since we have our own in-house SQL branch, the administrators are there, so they take care of the stability with the product. As far as I've seen, there really hasn't been much of an issue with stability.
View full review »I did not encounter any issues with stability.
It's a pretty stable product for what I needed it to do.
View full review »No, there are only strategies applied by a data scale interval (less than 200 go, less than 1 to, and more than 15 to).
View full review »Yes, several unexplained crashes caused dissatisfaction from users.
View full review »There were no stability issues.
View full review »There have been no stability issues yet.
View full review »The solution is relatively stable.
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Antonio Arcucci
CEO at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
No, never.
View full review »Compared to the other database solutions, there were no stability issues as such.
View full review »With each release of MySQL Server was useful for any little problems that users detected, so I would say it's quite stable.
View full review »The solution is able to be scaled but it depends on your Microsoft configuration. I would recommend this solution for small businesses.
View full review »It's pretty rock solid and we've had no issues with instability.
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Geraldo Santo
CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The stability is fantastic, it has been 100%.
View full review »There have been some problems with big table operations.
View full review »So far, so good due to limited clients at the moment.
View full review »There were no stability issues.
View full review »No issues.
View full review »For sure, the solution is very stable.
MySQL is a stable product.
View full review »It has been perfectly stable for us.
View full review »No issues.
View full review »There were no stability issues.
View full review »We do not have any issues with the stability of MySQL.
View full review »It is stable.
View full review »No, I’d say this is the best.
View full review »There were no stability issues.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »I have no stability problems.
View full review »We did encounter stability issues.
View full review »An overload of sessions, or long running queries. can cause the servers to be unusable.
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MySQL
April 2025

Learn what your peers think about MySQL. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2025.
850,760 professionals have used our research since 2012.