MySQL
The relational database behind a large part of the web, fast for simple reads and writes and available everywhere. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- Oracle
- Created by
- Michael Widenius, David Axmark, Allan Larsson
- First release
- 1995
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free with paid plans
- Website
- https://www.mysql.com
- Written in
- C, C++
- Data model
- Relational
- Storage layout
- Row-oriented
- Workload
- Transactions (OLTP)
- Analytics architecture
- Not an analytics platform
- Query language
- SQL
- ACID transactions
- Yes
- Schema
- Strict
- Deployment
- Server, Managed cloud
- Scaling
- Replication
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: fast (Quick inserts with InnoDB); Read: fast (Fast primary key and index lookups); Update: fast (In-place updates with undo logs); Delete: fast (Cheap deletes, space reused by InnoDB)