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- Easy to use1
- Cheap1
Pros of MySQL
- Sql800
- Free679
- Easy562
- Widely used528
- Open source490
- High availability180
- Cross-platform support160
- Great community104
- Secure79
- Full-text indexing and searching75
- Fast, open, available26
- Reliable16
- SSL support16
- Robust15
- Enterprise Version9
- Easy to set up on all platforms7
- NoSQL access to JSON data type3
- Relational database1
- Easy, light, scalable1
- Sequel Pro (best SQL GUI)1
- Replica Support1
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Cons of DigitalOcean Block Storage
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- Owned by a company with their own agenda16
- Can't roll back schema changes3
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What is DigitalOcean Block Storage?
Add more storage space, mix and match compute and storage to suit your database, file storage, application, service, mobile, and backup needs.
What is MySQL?
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
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What are some alternatives to DigitalOcean Block Storage and MySQL?
DigitalOcean Spaces
DigitalOcean Spaces are designed to make it easy and cost effective to store and serve massive amounts of data. Spaces are ideal for storing static, unstructured data like audio, video, and images as well as large amounts of text.
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.