Azure Database for MySQL vs. MySQL Migration Toolkit vs. SQLPro Studio vs. django-mysql Comparison Chart

MySQL Migration Toolkit is a software pack to convert any data source to MySQL and vice versa. The product has high performance because it does not use ODBC or any other middleware software. Command line support allows to script, automation and scheduling the conversion process. MySQL Migration Toolkit allows users to do the indirect conversion and get more control over the process. Following this way, the program converts data into a local MySQL dump file instead of moving it to MySQL server directly. This dump file contains MySQL statements to create all tables and to fill them with the data. Click here to learn how to import dump file into MySQL database. Once you stored conversion settings into your profile you can run the program in Quick Launch mode. Just launch Windows Explorer and double-click on the profile description file with left mouse button. It will launch the appropriate conversion process loading necessary settings from the specified profile.

Django-MySQL extends Django’s built-in MySQL and MariaDB support their specific features not available on other databases. A new cache backend that makes use of MySQL’s upsert statement and does compression. Named locks for easy locking of e.g. external resources. Extra checks added to Django’s check framework to ensure your Django and MySQL configurations are optimal. Django-MySQL comes with a number of extensions to QuerySet that can be installed in a number of ways - e.g. adding the QuerySetMixin to your existing QuerySet subclass.