Is MySQL faster than NoSQL?

Is SQL faster or NoSQL?

Is NoSQL faster than SQL? In general, NoSQL is not faster than SQL just as SQL is not faster than NoSQL. For those that didn't get that statement, it means that speed as a factor for SQL and NoSQL databases depends on the context.

Is MySQL better than NoSQL?

MySQL like a relational database can provide a performance issue for a huge amount of data, hence require optimization of queries whereas NoSQL databases like MongoDB are good at performance even with the dataset is huge in size.

Is MySQL faster than MongoDB?

MongoDB is faster than MySQL due to its ability to handle large amounts of unstructured data when it comes to speed. It uses slave replication, master replication to process vast amounts of unstructured data and offers the freedom to use multiple data types that are better than the rigidity of MySQL.

Is MySQL slower than MongoDB?

MySQL isn't a "slower" database than MongoDB. One is a relational database, the other a NoSQL document store. They will/should be faster in the functional areas that they were designed to cover. In the case of MySQL (or any RDBMS) and MongoDB this overlap isn't as big as a lot of people assume it is.