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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
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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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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is being used by our core team to develop and test out our prototype applications. It is lightweight, easy to use, and offers plugins for almost all of the widely used programming languages. Thanks to MySQL, spinning up a database to back prototype applications is a quick process. The rest of my organization is using Oracle Database 12c.
Aung Phyo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use MySQL for database management. I do school projects for web security classes with PHP. We use PHP for the backend and use MySQL for the database. This platform has good security features, and it was very easy to match with PHP and postscript databases.
September 17, 2019

MySQL: The Simpler Choice

Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
I write custom web-based applications and MySQL is my go-to database solution. Typically, an organization has a need for an application which their core services do not provide or they need an application to integrate with services they already use. In either case, MySQL is a great product to use for storing data easily and efficiently, for free with the benefit of adding logic in the database layer so that it manages itself.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
I am a Research Engineer in VizioChron, Inc. I have to use MySQL often. First, it is used by consumers that I work with. Second I have to do some experimental designs and implementations with the use of it. As it is open source it is easy to use it in common web projects e.g. LAMP.
Score 6 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is being used to log datasets from a series of electro-mechanical devices (due to NDA, I cannot discuss the specifics). These devices are mechanical in nature, with sensors monitoring properties of the devices. In this particular context, I am looking for failure points and building risk models around those points. However, I have looked at multiple databases for this particular project, and without a doubt, MySql is my favorite as it's simple to set up, and works seamlessly with a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, Php) installation), which really is the selling point here.
February 07, 2019

MySQL: Best DBMS

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used as a database for the website and application development in our organization. It is used by the technical department in our office. MySQL is a relational database management system which we can use in phpMyadmin and use to save data and work with data while developing a web application or websites.
January 15, 2019

Working with MySQL

Eliz Marvic Melicio Carvajal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I currently use it to manage databases of several internal web development applications of the company's personal and computer department. It is a versatile database manager. It is easy to use and install. And, because it is relational, it is very easy to locate information, export data, and make changes, among others. It does not require much induction for certain users to use it for some activities.
January 09, 2019

MySQL Review

Kartik Chavan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use MySQL at my organization to store the data, analyze and find insights. It helps make business easier by letting you store huge amounts of data, with easy quarrying and accessing, compatibility and analytics tools.
Joel Tanzi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I primarily use MySQL for data storage for content-management systems for websites built in Drupal or WordPress. It provides a simple, easily-managed solution to the need for performant data storage and querying for site data, such as pages or posts. I also use it as the back-end data storage and querying solution for static front-end web applications built in Angular, React or Vue. It remains my go-to choice when I need an SQL database for my applications and/or CMS. My business is a small one so it is used only by myself, and therefore across my organization. I use the Community Server edition as it suits my needs without having to extend it to the Enterprise Server edition.
Vishal Arora | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL proved to be an extremely useful tool for my company. We have a specific department where we use MySQL. Our company was looking for a good relational database management system that would meet the needs of the company and that's how MySQL helps us to maintain the 1500+ Store database handle in the SQL database. It should be low cost in the initial stage so not to incur so much cost compared to other solutions.
December 27, 2018

Outstanding Database Tool

Michael Timms | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The team that I supervise is used as sort of a "whatever is needed" type team, we have the label of desktop support, but our duties extend to much more than that. Some of us were web developers in the past and when building and managing a website MySQL is almost always the first database management tool that anyone uses. Hostgator was the first website host that I worked with and itw has MySQL and PHPmyAdmin support built in and that was my first experience with database management. Since I had zero experience up until that point, I could not have done my job without it. Now since I am not a database administrator by trade, every time that I needed to work on a database after this I would habitually grab MySQL. I have only used SQLLite so I do not have much else to compare it to, but I will say this: MySQL has never failed me when I have needed to do database work. I usually have to Google the functions that I need, and I almost always have to re-learn the language, but the tool works and it is free.
December 27, 2018

MySQL: Good Old Database

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is being used across our entire organization for various databases. Various different teams use MySQL and rely on it to maintain their backend application. We implement monitoring and metrics for MySQL to ensure we are getting the best performance out of our databases.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
My company is a healthcare delivery institute and performs a number of data science projects collaboratively with other healthcare, research, and academic organizations. We conducted a genomics research project that stores sequencing data with attributes of miRNA, exon, intron, Methylation, etc into a relational database and developed a web based visualization tool presenting patterns based on the data in the database. In the project, we used MySQL database for storing genomics information.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is a powerful open source database. We use cloud-hosted instances of this database to host our cloud-based subscription software application. The database is efficient and easy to use from a software developer standpoint. It is the backbone of our mobile and web-application which has been using MySQL for over 10 years.
Carlos Eduardo de Souza | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a Wordpress user and developer, I've been using MySQL on almost all of our projects for years, it's very common and hosting solutions with MySQL are usually cheap, so it's a no-brainer to use it. Also, there's a ton of applications that make it very easy to interact and manage MySQL databases, so you don't have to be an expert at all.
Andrew Shannon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We implemented MySQL as part of a LAMP stack for a new website we launched which was an Education management system that we custom built to serve our needs. We had very specific needs for our new website to interface with software the company created years ago and so there was no prebuilt solution available to us and we had to build a custom solution. We researched what the best solution was going to be and all roads pointed us to build a website using MySQL as the backend database because of its versatility and customization capabilities.
Carlos Alberto Pedron Espinett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is the database manager used in the organization for the administration of all its databases. We use MySQL because of the need to implement an open source solution for the administration of the databases of the company, the receipt of client information and prompt and timely consultation of that info.
December 19, 2018

MySQL a Viable Option

Tony Maskevich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MySQL is currently being across our enterprise for all areas of our business. We use it for both transactional and warehouse applications. It offers a low cost alternative to the expensive established vendors who charge very high licensing fees. We use it in stand alone as well as high availability models. It is a key piece of our strategic direction.
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