MySQL - The world's most popular open source database.
MySQL is a well-known relational database manager used in a wide variety of systems, including Twitter, Wikipedia, Facebook, Google, Wordpress, and countless more websites and other applications. Offering a wide range of features and highly scalable performance, MySQL is a good choice for any situation requiring a database.
Features
- Cross-platform support.
- Stored procedures, allowing you to centralize SQL calls.
- Triggers, allowing automatic responses to different actions.
- Cursors, allowing easy traversal over database records.
- True Varchar support.
- X/Open XA distributed transaction processing support (with two phase commit as a part) using Oracles InnoDB engine.
- Independent storage engines.
- SSL support.
- Query caching.
- Sub SELECTS.
- Replication support with one master per slave, many slaves per master. No automatic support for multiple masters per slave.
- Full text indexing and searching with MyISAM engine.
- Embedded database library.
- Partial Unicode support.
- ACID compliance when using transaction capable storage engines.
- Partitioned tables with pruning of partitions in optimizer.
- Shared-nothing clustering through MySQL Cluster.
- Hot backup under certain conditions.
- Multiple storage engines, allowing developers to choose one that is most effective for each table in the application.
- Commit grouping, gathering multiple transactions together to increase the number of transactions per second.
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