MySQL is a free and open source relational database management system.
The reasons we use MySQL are:
- It's easy to install and administer
- It has a lot of inbuilt functions
- It has great read performance
- It has a good online manual
- It has a strong global user community
- It's doubly free (free as in freedom, and free as in beer) so you can install as many different versions of it on as many different servers as you want
Who uses MySQL? Some organisations you might recognise include NASA, Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, YouTube and Flickr
Official website: www.mysql.com