| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 18 |
| Spec score · Spatial Databases | 7.9 (#20) | 8.9 (#6) |
| Spec score · Sql Databases | 7.9 (#16) | 8.9 (#2) |
| Spec score · Database Software | 7.6 (#65) | 9.5 (#1) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Support | IBM Extended Support can provide up to four additional years of support after a version reaches end of support, with defect fixes during the first year. | MySQL Enterprise technical support provides 24x7 direct access to MySQL support engineers. |
| Supported systems | IBM's current system requirements list UNIX, Linux and Windows systems and state that Mac OS is no longer supported. | MySQL Community Edition is available on over 20 platforms and operating systems including Linux, Unix, Mac and Windows. |
