# mSQL Reviews **Vendor:** Hughes Technologies **Category:** [Relational Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/relational-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 22 ## About mSQL Mini SQL (mSQL) is our light-weight SQL Database engine technology. First released in 1994, our database technology has been incorporated into products from companies such as HP, Cisco, Tandem, Cray, EDS, TRW, General Electric, and Real Networks. ## mSQL Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise the **open-source nature** of mSQL, valuing its reliability for small to medium applications. (1 reviews) - Users value the **reliability** of mSQL, finding it excellent for small to medium applications. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users report significant **downtime issues** with mSQL due to poor scalability and server instability, hindering usability. (1 reviews) - Users find the **poor scalability** and instability of mSQL problematic, deeming it unsuitable for modern production needs. (1 reviews) ## mSQL Reviews ### 1. Lightweight Open-Source RDBMS Ideal for Small to Medium Apps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sharon A. | DevOps Engineer, Maritime, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2026 **What do you like best about mSQL?** A lightweight, open-source relational database management system. Very good and reliable for small to medium applications **What do you dislike about mSQL?** It has poor scalability, and the server is unstable. Development has been discontinued, which makes it unsuitable for modern production use. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides a lightweight, easy-to-deploy relational database for resource-limited environments such as early web apps and embedded systems. This benefits users by enabling rapid setup, keeping overhead to a minimum, and offering simplified, SQL-based data management without the bloat of enterprise alternatives. ### 2. mSql - your goto relational database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikhil A. | Staff Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2023 **What do you like best about mSQL?** mSQL is open-source software, meaning it is free to use and modify. It is available for all major hosting providers and offers complete cloud-based database solutions. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** mSql is write intensive database as read operations are fast, write operations are comparatively slow, which might be a limitation for write-heavy applications. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is optimized for read-heavy operations, making it fast and efficient for retrieval-heavy applications. And also it is ACID compliant ensuring secure and reliable transactions. ### 3. mSQL is only for determined students **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2023 **What do you like best about mSQL?** Working with all the lines at the same time is the privilege that took my attention. What it takes is a few lines of code, but it applies to the whole table. In short,it takes short code but powerful. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** There are several functions which made me really frustrated to learn mSQL, like subqueries. Although it took me some time to get used to, I realised that this obtacle was just not as big as I thought. Furthermore, there is a problem with the server, which is turned off automatically several times a week. Therefore, I have to go controls of the mSQL Server first to switch it on to use mSQL. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trends and overall analysis of the business. These two are the main reasons for my use . It is really helpful to clean the data to make powerful visualizations for insights. ### 4. is mysql relational database still a thing ? **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zunair A. | IT System Network Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2023 **What do you like best about mSQL?** Open-source Nature reliability widespread easy to use for Linux Users. cost-effective choice for data management. Comparatively easy to learn for new users in the development field. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** certain types of complex queries or heavy loads affect the performance. In some cases, This database performance could degrade compared with other databases. Needs a lot of time to reset a user password. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this relational database for my application HRMS. ### 5. MySql: The Reliable and Versatile Database Solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manish P. | Lead UI Product Engineer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2023 **What do you like best about mSQL?** what I like best about MySQL is its combination of performance, scalability, ease of use, community support, and security. It has earned its place as one of the most widely used database systems in the world, serving as a reliable foundation for countless applications and websites **What do you dislike about mSQL?** Complex Configration,Limited Support for Some Data Types, Storage Engine Variability,Limited Built-in Analytics, Lack of Native Full-Text Search, Concurrency Issues **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** MySQL's solutions to data management challenges empower developers and organizations to handle data effectively, efficiently, and securely, ultimately benefiting you by simplifying data-related tasks and ensuring the reliability and scalability of your applications. ### 6. Experience withMSQL **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Appala Sreekanth C. | AM-Talent Acquisition , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2023 **What do you like best about mSQL?** MSQL is user friendly Query language and very easy to understand and use. It operates well and gives better performance. Compare to competitive products this can be very easy to learn for new users. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** Nothing to say negative or flaws about the product but very few things are common compare to competitive products. But this is really better compare to market products. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can write complex queries with less effort, it means that we can use this language very easy. It's very beneficial to the users to become more productive. ### 7. Data management via mysql **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Atul S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2023 **What do you like best about mSQL?** The free license and simplicity to start. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** Handling transaction cause problem. Using mysql with framework like typeorm etc..., cause transaction to be on hault. Resulting in the failure of test case. Several restart the db server is enought to fix this issue **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are e commerce platform, with lots of structured data, we need db which can have performant insertion and reading operations. ### 8. It's easy to learn and use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** joseph i. | Frontend Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2023 **What do you like best about mSQL?** That it's simple and easy to learn and use new tricks using it **What do you dislike about mSQL?** I dislike that it's case sensitive and can't take uppercase letters when creating a table name **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helping me separate types of inputted languages and reorganise a string to the format I desire with ease ### 9. Review on MySQL **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunag R. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2022 **What do you like best about mSQL?** MySQL is open source, and it is easily installed on any OS. The queries for MySQL is easy and can handle large amount of dataset in a structured format. The integration of python with MySQL is also very easy. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** I wish that MySQL would hold unstructured data formats too. Since the query writing is simple, it would help in unstructured format also. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have worked with MySQL, python for data storage, and web frameworks like Flask and Django. The response from MySQL to python is superfast, and it helped a lot in web development. ### 10. I recommend to use SQL for all purposes **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bogireddy G. | Test Automation Eng Analyst , Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2022 **What do you like best about mSQL?** I like way the table definetions and primary key and column value selection criteria and mySQL is blazing fast and we can expand the scope beyond the business requirements. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** Nothing about features and Oracle corp made mySQL licenced version I donot like above that. There is provision for Json data store . If further release support this that could be wonderful. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly I will use this for fetching the data stored in databases and tables. Its very easy to store and retrieve and update the data in MySQL databases. That is amazing. ### 11. SQL is best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi Ramsamujh S. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2022 **What do you like best about mSQL?** It reduces my effort and time and helps me reduce my task and can fetch data very easily from huge data stored in a database. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** It should be supported on HTML and over codes also. SQL should support older versions as well for the betterment of data capturing and all. **Recommendations to others considering mSQL:** Use it Freely it is efficient and Cool to use and the best to manage data for calculation as well , Go for it **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** It reduces effort and time and helps me reduce my task and load very easily, viewing huge data make it easier for me. merging of 3 table or more can be done very easily ### 12. The fastest platform to access stored data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Renil Ashlin M J 1. | Customer Support Executive, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2022 **What do you like best about mSQL?** What I like the most about mini SQL or mSQL is that it is a very lightweight database platform that gives a fast access to the stored data by using small memory. It is a very commercial SQL platform as well which makes it very likable. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** One of the most significant downsides of mSQL is that it will not support Triggers and partitioning methods. Absence of foreign keys is also something that I dislike about MSQL. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** The miniSQL platform was used as an interface to compose queries to get the required data. The key ebnefits of the mSQL that I realized are that it gives ful control over the server's resources and over our won data. ### 13. Highly recommended and reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2022 **What do you like best about mSQL?** mSql is a great tool which provides database management solutions. We can handle large databases easily and efficiently.Msql makes it better competitor than other because of its flexibility. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** Handling Large databases can sometimes be slower than expected.performance scaling can be issue for some process.being open source It does not include features of storeing procedures. **Recommendations to others considering mSQL:** Good and reliable database management solution. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** Handling day to day transaction seems to be handy while using msql and makes it a better choice for using this solution over others.It have increased the productivity and the efficiency of the process. ### 14. mySQL review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivangi P. | SDE, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2022 **What do you like best about mSQL?** Amazing language to solve your relational database related queries and to store your data in an efficiet matter. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** There si nothing in mySQL to dislike or to complain about. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** mySQL is an amazing language to manage and solve your database-related queries, fetch data, store data and it is very simple to use. The syntax is also very easy to learn and undersyand; moreover, every SDE every day uses it to work upon databases. ### 15. mSql open source database **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2022 **What do you like best about mSQL?** Easy to write down queries. Fast in fetching data .Easy to grasp and learn and use.Works with most of the popular programming languages. Cheaper , can be used in different operating system. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** User interface needs to be improved .Data view tabs are not good for viewing data join query.Problem with big datasets.Not much support for relational database.scalibility issues. **Recommendations to others considering mSQL:** Can be used for data management and manipulation. It is easy and simple to learn and write queries. Has compatibility with different programming languages. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data joining . Data manipulation Data management Fetching the data Connection with Python programming. Relational database Using data directly with tableau from mSql ### 16. Best DB for your small business **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2022 **What do you like best about mSQL?** Basically its a lightweight database and its easy to integrate with our application needs. Also its supports XML and easy to manage. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** Its not provide the support for Server side scripting so we need to handle those things seperately. Also Triggering is not supported so manually we need to do the actions. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have reduced my server costs because msql is able to run even in the low memory servers where as mysql needs some memory for heap and all. ### 17. Performance Efficient Database Management System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2022 **What do you like best about mSQL?** From the name Mini Sql itself it is a light weight engine technology.Easy to incorporate with applications.Very stable product and very easy to use the commands and queries. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** Launching msql is sometimes a pain.Other than that I don't think any disadvantage with msql.Anyone can easily learn how to use msql easily **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using msql helps to improve my sql skills ### 18. Perform addressing and perform grouping **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about mSQL?** Msql stored procedures are are very well organized for address correction and key generation. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** Installation process is very confusing. Though it can be simplified if we actually look into it. **Recommendations to others considering mSQL:** To obtain a consistent and fast output, one must use this msql RDBMS **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Applying triggers on tables so that no wrong action is made on the tables. 2. Applying fuzzy deduplication ### 19. Best DBMS tool to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2021 **What do you like best about mSQL?** Users can easily understand mSQL and its's functionality; the interface is the good and best tool to work with DataBase. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** DataBase users need fast connection where it lags some times, rest I am good to go with this. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** Always use mSQL to search my data created in the project database, and I Love using DataBase queries. I use this to enhance my skills ### 20. Sensor Dashboard **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about mSQL?** The sql commnads are quite easy to use and easy to play with the database and the relational database. It is very stable as compared to others **What do you dislike about mSQL?** I dont think there is any disadvantage of the sql **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using sql while developing the sensor dashboard so that all data are stored in the database. ### 21. Review of mSQL **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parth T. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2021 **What do you like best about mSQL?** like the way it runs fast like doesn't require time to fire query it is very easy to use **What do you dislike about mSQL?** I don't have any dislike for this product. **What problems is mSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** for PHP Web Development ### 22. Great tool for DBMS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2021 **What do you like best about mSQL?** User interface and easy to write queries in mSQL. **What do you dislike about mSQL?** Sometimes, it takes much time to open mSQL. **Recommendations to others considering mSQL:** mSQL can be used for implementing database queries. 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