14 Facts About MySQL

MySQL is an open-source relational database management system .

MySQL is free and open-source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and is available under a variety of proprietary licenses.

MySQL was owned and sponsored by the Swedish company MySQL AB, which was bought by Sun Microsystems .

MySQL is used by many database-driven web applications, including Drupal, Joomla, phpBB, and WordPress.

MySQL is used by many popular websites, including Facebook, Flickr, MediaWiki, Twitter, and YouTube.

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MySQL has received positive reviews, and reviewers noticed it "performs extremely well in the average case" and that the "developer interfaces are there, and the documentation is very, very good".

MySQL was created by a Swedish company, MySQL AB, founded by Swedes David Axmark, Allan Larsson and Finland Swede Michael "Monty" Widenius.

In 2002, MySQL AB sued Progress NuSphere for copyright and trademark infringement in United States district court.

In October 2005, Oracle Corporation acquired Innobase OY, the Finnish company that developed the third-party InnoDB storage engine that allows MySQL to provide such functionality as transactions and foreign keys.

MySQL is offered under two different editions: the open source MySQL Community Server and the proprietary Enterprise Server.

MySQL can be built and installed manually from source code, but it is more commonly installed from a binary package unless special customizations are required.

MySQL can be run on cloud computing platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

MySQL Utilities is a set of utilities designed to perform common maintenance and administrative tasks.

MySQL shell is a tool for interactive use and administration of the MySQL database.