What is MySQL?
MySQL is the open source
Relational Database Management System, it is simple but one of the most
powerful database management systems for
web technologies. This RDBMS is available in many platforms including
Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac. Because of its architecture MySQL is robust and
easy to customize. It is multithread and multi-user RDBMS, it is designed for
heavy load and processing of complex queries.
Reasons of choosing MySQL:
- As mentioned above, the combination of Apache, MySQL and
PHP is the one of the robust
architectures to deploy web application which is supposed to receive great
traffic.
- MySQL is freely available RDBMS with great features as in commercial DBMS..
- MySQL supports multiple platforms so that web site owner does not need to
stick with one operating system because of database software.