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MySQL vs Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL vs Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL

3.82

553 reviews

Founded / Started in 1995

Microsoft SQL Server

3.45

222 reviews

Founded / Started in 1989

Yes

No

Awareness

Have you heard of them?

69.5%

638

38.8%

355

Yes

No

Used

Have you used them?

87%

555

63.4%

225

Yes

No

Adoption

Are you currently using them?

47.9%

266

28.9%

65

Preference

If you were starting a new project, would you use them?

Yes

34%

209

Maybe

35%

218

No

31%

196

Yes

15%

53

Maybe

4%

15

No

80%

276

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3.67

(3)

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3.59

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Couchbase

3.4

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Dgraph

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DuckDB

3.94

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DynamoDB

3.44

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EdgeDB

3.65

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ElasticSearch

3.65

(269)

Fauna

3.28

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Firestore

3.31

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FoundationDB

3.83

(6)

HBase

3.3

(14)

IBM Cloudant

3.74

(8)

InfluxDB

3.57

(50)

MariaDB

3.7

(255)

Memgraph

3.78

(2)

Microsoft Access

2.39

(171)

Milvus

3.62

(4)

MongoDB

3.57

(504)

Neo4j

3.55

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3.21

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Pinecone

3.55

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4.48

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Prometheus

3.87

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RavenDB

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4.28

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3.47

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4.03

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Timescale

4.03

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Weaviate

4.12

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Xano

3.77

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YugabyteDB

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