What is MySQL?
MySQL became widespread as part of the LAMP stack and remains one of the most widely used open-source relational databases for web applications today. The Community edition is free; the Enterprise edition offers additional security, backup and monitoring tools. Oracle also provides an analytics- and vector-enabled cloud service called HeatWave. It is the default database for many popular applications such as WordPress.
Key facts
- Starting price
- Free
- Pricing model
- Open source
- Active users
- —
- Customers
- —
- Vendor employees
- 162,000
- Launched
- 1995
- Deployment
- On-premise, Cloud (SaaS)
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Strengths & considerations
Strengths
- Widely supported by hosting providers and frameworks
- Easy to set up and use
- Large community and documentation
- Free plan available
- Open source
- Can run on-premise
Considerations
- Some advanced features lag behind PostgreSQL
- Enterprise tools require commercial licenses
- Horizontal scaling needs extra setup
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Industries & use cases
Industries served
Banking & capital markets
Healthcare
Government & public sector
Manufacturing & industrial
Retail & consumer
Cross-industry
Typical use cases
- Finance transformation on Fusion Cloud ERP
- Migrating Oracle databases to OCI or multicloud
- Electronic health record modernization
Typical Deloitte services
- Fusion Cloud applications implementation
- Oracle workload migration to OCI
- EBS-to-cloud ERP transformation
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Features
✓Self-hosted· Deployment
✓Open source· Deployment
✓Multi-language· Platform
✓Role-based access· Security
✓Audit log· Security
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