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MySQL 5.6 Pros and Cons: Top Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users appreciate the robust data analytics capabilities of MySQL 5.6, enhancing their backend operations effectively. (1 mentions)
Users praise MySQL 5.6 for its robust performance, excelling in backend operations and analytics tasks. (1 mentions)
Users find MySQL 5.6 has limited flexibility for scalability, yet it currently meets their needs. (1 mentions)

Top Pros or Advantages of MySQL 5.6

1. Data Analytics
Users appreciate the robust data analytics capabilities of MySQL 5.6, enhancing their backend operations effectively.
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Eugene V.
EV

Eugene V.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5.0/5

"Simply the best"

What do you like about MySQL 5.6?

Great DB that just works great - robust for the backend needs, great for analytics

2. Performance
Users praise MySQL 5.6 for its robust performance, excelling in backend operations and analytics tasks.
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Eugene V.
EV

Eugene V.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5.0/5

"Simply the best"

What do you like about MySQL 5.6?

Great DB that just works great - robust for the backend needs, great for analytics

Top Cons or Disadvantages of MySQL 5.6

1. Limited Flexibility
Users find MySQL 5.6 has limited flexibility for scalability, yet it currently meets their needs.
See 1 mentions

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Eugene V.
EV

Eugene V.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5.0/5

"Simply the best"

What do you dislike about MySQL 5.6?

Might be not very scalable, but meets our for needs at the moment

MySQL 5.6 Reviews (12)

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Eugene V.
EV
Head of Product
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Simply the best"
What do you like best about MySQL 5.6?

Great DB that just works great - robust for the backend needs, great for analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL 5.6?

Might be not very scalable, but meets our for needs at the moment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Khilan P.
KP
Unity Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"review for MYSQL 5.6"
What do you like best about MySQL 5.6?

Multi-range read and scanning several index ranges is a query designed to speed up operations such as range index scans and join operations on indexed columns.

Replication improvement

Optimization replaced with row-based.

Secure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL 5.6?

native JSON support

InnoDB limitations, for example, it uses a shared buffer pool for caching data and indexes.

It's challenging to debug sto

Lack of certain features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andres H.
AH
Development Team Lead
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"It's an excellent Relational Database Management System"
What do you like best about MySQL 5.6?

It is free and has InnoDB for foreign key constraints, triggers, custom functions, views, and many important things in the SQL world. It also has a large community, so you might find answers easier compared to Oracle and PostgreSQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL 5.6?

It does not have JSON data types, but it was included in version 5.7. I really dislike the fact that it does not have a real BOOLEAN data type, we need to use TINYINT and cast it in the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Soumyadip C.
SC
Information Technology Consultant
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Site Reliability Engineer"
What do you like best about MySQL 5.6?

Secure , High performance, Industry Standard , Opensource, Data Security, Scalability, Higher Efficiency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL 5.6?

It's not a huge Database size and challenge to debug stored procedures . It's not SQL complaint as syntax of SQL in MySQL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Siddharth P.
SP
Unity 3d Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
""Unveiling the power of MYSQL 5.6""
What do you like best about MySQL 5.6?

1. Performance improvements.

2. Replication Enhancements.

3.InnoDb improvements.

4. Better Security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL 5.6?

1. Lack of JSON Support.

2. Limited Performance.

3. Inefficient Full-text Search.

4.Limited Online Schema Changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IM
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great Relational Database Provider"
What do you like best about MySQL 5.6?

Limitless functionalities, can handle a vast number of tables, schemas, and databases at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL 5.6?

UI can be improved, looks a little old and too complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jatin K.
JK
Freelance
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A Generous goodbye to MySQL 5.6 [Deprecated Feb 2022]"
What do you like best about MySQL 5.6?

Of course, MySQL is the most popular RDBMS in fact, the first database of many. It's a great tool, and I admired the newly added features in the 5.0+ versions. My favorite was all of them the COMMIT and stored procedures that were added, it made the job so easy and productive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL 5.6?

Scalability was an issue and is still sort of an issue with MySQL but for what it is supposed to do, it is perfect in that. MySQL is not really for big/large databases anyway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rithika G.
RG
Cloud Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"MySQL 5.6 has enhanced Performance Schema which is useful for our MySQL server monitoring executions"
What do you like best about MySQL 5.6?

MySQL 5.6 is excellent when it comes to delivering multithreaded database servers with dual license policies (GNU & Commercial licenses) for our production systems. It includes various security improvements for storing authentication passwords which can be created from its config editor utility. It also includes password expiration columns which are useful in preventing subsequent server connection requests once it is set as Y. No additional configuration is required once we connect our client software with pipe connections for granting access control privileges to our users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL 5.6?

Previously we had issues with its audit log due to compatibility problems with our Oracle audit vault. The file format obtained from the audit log was recently updated which effectively solved our compatibility issues. Now we are able to filter our audit events through its built-in plugin for our multi-user accounts & reporting its event status. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad N.
MN
Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"MySQL review"
What do you like best about MySQL 5.6?

MySQL is easy to use and very popular database.

This is free of cost.

Server for MySQL is good.

PHP MyAdmin

Using Apache server(xampp), I used on localhost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL 5.6?

No, there is no faults with MySQL.

There is nothing wrong with MySQL.

Its work properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Md. Siddikur R.
MR
Database Administrator
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best for query optimization, High Transactional throughput in InnoDB engine"
What do you like best about MySQL 5.6?

Fast performance and Improvement of InnoDB Engine.

I appreciate the NoSQL interface via Memcached.

I use MySQL workbench.

I think its fast performance, scaleability will create a unique position in the competitive market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MySQL 5.6?

I was so upset when I saw the InnoDB flush method was not supported in Windows in this version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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