MySQL is a leader in open source, and one of the fastest growing open source database developers in the world. As the world's most popular open source database software, the MySQL Enterprise Edition is the company's flagship product, including product testing software, active monitoring tools and gold support services. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing companies and institutions, including industry leaders such as Yahoo, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia, YouTube and booking.com all use MySQL products, saving time and money to create a large number of Web sites, key business systems and packaged software. MySQL's open source database is widely deployed in all major operating systems, with a wide range of hardware users, areas involved, application industries, and application types. MySQL's high-performance open-source database software has been downloaded and distributed over 100 million sets, and is growing by downloading 50,000 sets a day.
The MySQL open source database is the "M" of the Lamp architecture (composed of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Php/perl, often viewed as an internet base). Databases from MySQL, as well as OpenSolaris and GlassFish, together with Sun's Java platform and NetBeans community, will create a powerful Web application platform for the vast majority of customers who apply to the Web.
MySQL Enterprise Server Software is the most reliable, safest, newer version of the MySQL Enterprise Server database, which provides cost-effective e-commerce, online transaction processing (OLTP), Gigabit Data Warehouse applications. It is a secure transaction processing, acid-adapting database that delivers complete commit, reverse, crash recovery, and row-level locking capabilities. MySQL database is the most popular open source database in the world because of its ease of use, scalability and high performance.
MySQL Enterprise Server 5.0 delivers new enterprise-class product features, including:
Acid transaction Processing: Key applications for building reliable security
Stored procedures: Can improve developer productivity
Triggers: Enabling users to complete complex business logic at the database level
Views: Ensuring sensitive data is not stolen
Information planning: Provides a quick way to query meta data
Distributed processing: It enables complex transaction processing across multiple databases
Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture: Provides great flexibility for database design implementation
Archive Storage Engine: Provides a management platform for historical data and audit data
Federated storage Engine: Data from multiple different servers can be built into a unified logical database
MySQL also provides a full set of database-driven and drawing tools to help developers and database administrators build and manage their MySQL applications as follows:
(1) MySQL Driver
MySQL Native C Library
MySQL Drivers for ODBC, JDBC,. NET
Community Drivers for PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc
MySQL CONNECTOR/MXJ for deployment as a JMX MBean
(2) MySQL Graphics tools
MySQL Workbench
MySQL Query Browser
MySQL Administrator
MySQL Migration Toolkit