Why Use MySQL?


MySQL is an excellent database server product. There are many reasons you should consider using MySQL for your database server.

MySQL is fast and stable. This is the key to its success. In February 2002, eWeek (www.eweek.com) performed a benchmarking study of the major database systems including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, and MySQL. The study rated MySQL and Oracle 9 as the best overall performers. This study was done using only the alpha of MySQL 4.0, but MySQL 4.1 is even faster.

MySQL is available as free software and as commercial software. It is available under a dual licensing scheme. All MySQL software is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL), but in situations in which you need or want a commercial license, you can buy one.

MySQL supports the vast majority of features considered important by the database community, such as transactions, row-level locking, foreign keys, subqueries, and full text searching. Version 5.0 will add stored procedures to the list.

MySQL scales well. It is used by some very demanding customers including Yahoo! Finance, Slashdot, and the U.S. Census Bureau.

MySQL is a great tool for learning about databases in general due to the ease of installation and use and the small hard disk and memory footprint.

Overall, MySQL is an excellent choice for your database application.



MySQL Tutorial
MySQL Tutorial
ISBN: 0672325845
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 261

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