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MySQL

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What is MySQL?

MySQL is a popular open-source relational and embedded database, now owned by Oracle.

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Reliable and easy to use database

9 out of 10
November 20, 2023
It is solving the problem of efficient processing of a decent amount of data sets. Before that, all data was stored in an Excel sheet, …
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E-Commerce Website using PHP and MySQL || Project Demo || Part -1

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Small CRM Project using PHP and MySQL (Free Download)

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User Registration Form with PHP and MySQL Tutorial 5 - Add Form Validation + Final Demo

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MySQL database WinForms CRUD Demo. (CREATE,READ,SELECT,UPDATE,DELETE) | C#

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MySQL Enterprise Edition [Newer Version Available]

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C# MySQL database WinForms CRUD Demo. (CREATE,READ,SELECT,UPDATE,DELETE)

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Product Details

What is MySQL?

MySQL is a popular open-source relational and embedded database, now owned by Oracle.

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What is MySQL?
MySQL is one of the most popular database software options for businesses of all sizes. The software is open source, and highly customizable, so users can set up an instance that meets their needs.
While MySQL is a specific product, NoSQL is a type of database that includes a number of available products. Whether a NoSQL (nonrelational database) product or using MySQL (relational database) is right for you greatly depends on the data you are storing, queries, and flexibility.

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Frequently Asked Questions

MySQL is a popular open-source relational and embedded database, now owned by Oracle.

Microsoft Access, Google Cloud SQL, and Amazon Redshift are common alternatives for MySQL.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of MySQL are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Balázs Kiss | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it from time-to-time, as the database solution for our smaller projects which requires a relational database. Usually used by the whole team, integrated into the production chain, and nearly everybody uses it for testing, smaller modifications in the data model, or when installing for a localized development environment.
Jose Manuel Ortega | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use MySQL mainly as a database management system for small applications oriented to the management of resources of the different projects that store information related to the employees, either for the management of tasks or to allocate the hours that each employee registers in the project. We generally use it together with the PHP programming language and Apache Web Server using the LAMP distribution (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP).
Adolfo Maltez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use MySQL as a RDBMS in a variety of web systems across the entire organization. It's very easy to use, install, and support multiple configurations for a variety of use cases. MySQL has helped us to improve our response time in providing database infrastructure to a wide variety of projects.
April 16, 2021

MySQL--Best RDBMS

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my team, we are using MySQL as a relational database management system for internal software development projects. It helps us to store data in a well organized and systematic format, which, in return, results in better management, less utilization of resources, and time savings.










Yaniv Vararu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is serving more than one department in our organization. In the R&D department, it's being used as part of our software development. Other departments such as product, customer success, support, business development, and more are using it for managing the customers, for getting analytics, for creating reports and dashboards, and acting by this data.
April 12, 2021

MySQL is useful

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL gets used for the most part in our infrastructure. If it is a website, an API, or something else, MySQL is the most used. It's used for data storage and user management. Our MySQL instance is available to every developer who needs to save something in a database, which is one of the reasons why it has so many use cases for us.
April 12, 2021

MySQL works well

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is used as our relational data store for information in support of our software platform - software as a service for internal communications and employee experience. It is used across the entire product offering for frequently accessed and transactional data with multiple instances including master, failover, and read replicas.
Manav Goel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is used by the whole company. This is a very useful structured database managing tool which helps us in our day-to-day data mining and creating excel with this huge data. The best part of it is if we accidentally make any wrong inputs while capturing any of the data details in our day-to-day activity it can be very easily fixed for a long list of sheets in a single go with a set of queries. MySQL provides the best way to interact with the SQL database. It offers the best available security toward SQL database and maintenance also it takes care of large databases to be optimised and responsive to every action.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is used by our department to interact with the database. We basically use it for database manipulation and security. Since there are large database, this software really comes in handy. Coding is very straightforward and new team members are easily able to grasp things. Also helps in working with big data.
Maria Cristina Dela Pena | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL engine is currently being used in some of the business unit systems in my current organization. This is being considered as the first option when creating new applications or systems if there are low-budget projects and if the application is web-based driven.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
MySQL is a great Open Source Relational Database Management System(RDBMS). It has a lot of features. It is very stable. It provides an easy to use GUI with options for DDL, DML and DCL operations. One can easily create/alter tables, views, procedures, triggers, functions, indexes and much more. Writing queries, sub queries and joins are easily possible with MySQL.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is used in my company to store transactional data of modern applications that have been developed with an SOA architecture oriented to services and microservices, since these require multiple databases that are stable, light and have high availability.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is being used for many software in my company development for specific departments and software for all employees across the organization like human resources forms, Content Management Systems for website and intranet, health forms, satisfaction survey software.
November 04, 2019

MySQL - Old User's Review

Holman Cárdenas, M.Eng, TOGAF®, ITIL® | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used MySQL across different companies, mainly as a DB for web pages (along with Apache and PHP) and web-based applications (internal and external). It provides a fast, reliable and efficient DB solution.
October 11, 2019

mysql review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As I know, we use it only in a department of our company. Most of the time we use this database as a development database. We store less complex data structures in it, small and few tables, as we know it's better to store small amount of data then other relation databases.
October 08, 2019

I like MySql

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It was used across the whole organization internally. It was picked because of the easy integration, great support, and stability. For internal usage, they needed a cost-effective but trustworthy solution. Also from experience, the developers are familiar with MySql the most, they would able to use the juniors to work on the internal solutions first and learn the way.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is used in the whole organization, for variety of engineering and business purposes. Examples of uses:
  • DevOps pipelines data
  • Software artifact data and metadata
  • Test results
  • Validation results
  • Users and their associated data
  • Extracts from Big Data systems
MySQL is a data store many users are familiar with, and that makes for easy adoption. The infrastructure teams have experience in running it reliably.
September 18, 2019

I love MySQL

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is one of the powerful database management in the world. that very easy to use and because it's an opensource project. That's make it very special, because lot of developer work on it and make it powerful each day. MSQL is really the best alternative for startup, because they do not have to much budget. That a great technology for free.
September 18, 2019

I like data.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is mostly for vetting out developers to make sure they had enough knowledge to accomplish specific job duties. I created a bunch of tables and relationships, and populated a couple hundred rows of data across all of the tables. Then I gave developers a test asking them to send me back SQL scripts to perform various SQL, DDL, DML tasks and I would validate everything to make sure it worked as it ought to.
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