MySQL

MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database. It’s the leading database choice for web-based applications. It supports SQL as its database language. It has views that relate to an SQL query that is viewed as a distinct database object and makes it possible for one to view a particular part of a database. It also has stored procedures that are simply SQL codes that are stored in the database system. These stored procedures are used to simplify certain steps like inserting or deleting a data record. It has triggers which are SQL commands that are automatically executed by the server in certain database operations. It has replication that allows the contents of a database to be copied onto a number of computers. It has transactions where in the context of a database system it’s the execution of several database operations as a block. The database system ensures that either all of the operations are correctly executed or none of them. It provides foreign key constraints that are rules that ensure that there are no cross references I linked tables that lead to nowhere. It allows for platform independence in that it is not only client applications that run under a variety of operating systems but MySQL itself can be executed under a number of operating systems. MySQl is also considered a very fast database program.