MySQL database was in news recently , when Sun Microsystems acquired it and declared its support for this database technology.
The popularity of MySQL can be assessed by the following facts:
-Wikipedia which is a very famous sites uses MySQL database to store its enormous data.
-About 1 million visitors visit Booking.com which is a website.This website is using MySQL as database.
-iStockPhoto uses MySQL database.
MySQL is a free database which is used on desktop applications as well as industry strength applications.MySQL finds favours with the database professionals and developers alike because of its high-end features.MySQL can be used in deeply embedded applications with a small footprint of unimaginable 1 MB to high-end industry applications containing tera bytes of data.
MySQL provides developers and users with features available only with paid softwares like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.These features include fast loading of data and full text search facility.Moreover MySQL provides distributed transaction support and complete ACID(Atomicity,Consistency,Isolation,Durability) support.
MySQL is the first choice of developers for web applications for its fast insert capability and fast query engine.MySQL provides high security of data through its support for Secure Socket Layers.
MySQL is available for most of the widely used operating systems like Windows,Linux,Solaris to mention a few.
MySQL is most widely used in combination with Linux as operating system and PHP as server side programming language.But this is slowly changing as Sun Microsystems has acquired this database. In spite of all these features MySQL is very fast to download and install.Since it is free database and opensource all of the benefits of opensource software apply to MySQL database technology.
I found following links useful
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