Screenshot of the default MySQL command-line banner and prompt
Original author(s)
MySQL AB
Developer(s)
Oracle Corporation
Initial release
23 May 1995; 28 years ago (1995-05-23)
Stable release
8.3.0[1]
/ 16 January 2024; 2 months ago (16 January 2024)
Repository
github.com/mysql/mysql-server
Written in
C, C++[2]
Operating system
Linux, Solaris, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD[3]
Available in
English
Type
RDBMS
License
GPLv2 or proprietary[4]
Website
www.mysql.com
MySQL (/ˌmaɪˌɛsˌkjuːˈɛl/)[5] is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).[5][6] Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My,[7] and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language. A relational database organizes data into one or more data tables in which data may be related to each other; these relations help structure the data. SQL is a language that programmers use to create, modify and extract data from the relational database, as well as control user access to the database. In addition to relational databases and SQL, an RDBMS like MySQL works with an operating system to implement a relational database in a computer's storage system, manages users, allows for network access and facilitates testing database integrity and creation of backups.
MySQL is free and open-source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and is also available under a variety of proprietary licenses. MySQL was owned and sponsored by the Swedish company MySQL AB, which was bought by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation).[8] In 2010, when Oracle acquired Sun, Widenius forked the open-source MySQL project to create MariaDB.[9]
MySQL has stand-alone clients that allow users to interact directly with a MySQL database using SQL, but more often, MySQL is used with other programs to implement applications that need relational database capability. MySQL is a component of the LAMP web application software stack (and others), which is an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python. MySQL is used by many database-driven web applications, including Drupal, Joomla, phpBB, and WordPress.[10] MySQL is also used by many popular websites, including Facebook,[11][12] Flickr,[13] MediaWiki,[14] Twitter,[15] and YouTube.[16]
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^Pearce, Rohan (28 March 2013). "Dead database walking: MySQL's creator on why the future belongs to MariaDB". Computerworld. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2020. The day the Sun purchase was announced, Widenius responded […] — he forked MySQL, launching MariaDB […]
^Jackson, Joab (8 March 2010). "WordPress Guns for Web Content Management Duties". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 August 2023. WordPress, created in 2003, uses a variety of open-source programs and open standards, such as PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
^Sobel, Jason (21 December 2007). "Keeping Up". The Facebook Blog. Facebook. Archived from the original on 18 June 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2009. […] Facebook's data is stored in MySQL database servers […]
^Matsunobu, Yoshinori (31 August 2016). "MyRocks: A space- and write-optimized MySQL database". Facebook Engineering. Archived from the original on 7 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020. At Facebook we use MySQL to manage many petabytes of data, along with the InnoDB storage engine […]
^Elliott-McCrea, Kellan (8 February 2010). "Using, Abusing and Scaling MySQL at Flickr". code.flickr.com. Retrieved 3 April 2020. […] at Flickr, MySQL is our hammer, and we use it for nearly everything. It's our federated data store, our key-value store, and our document store.
^"Manual:MySQL". www.mediawiki.org. MediaWiki, The Free Wiki Engine. Retrieved 3 April 2020. The MySQL and MariaDB database engines are the most commonly-used database backends for MediaWiki.
^Hashemi, Mazdak (19 January 2017). "The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale". blog.twitter.com. Retrieved 3 April 2020. SQL: This includes MySQL, PostgreSQL and Vertica. MySQL/PosgreSQL are used where we need strong consistency […]
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