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5.

1 Introduction to MYSQL SERVER

MySQL is a fast, easy-to-use RDBMS being used for many small and big businesses.
MySQL is developed, marketed and supported by MySQL AB, which is a Swedish
company. MySQL is becoming so popular because of many good reasons
• MySQL is released under an open-source license. So you have nothing to pay
to use it.
• MySQL is a very powerful program in its own right. It handles a large subset of
the functionality of the most expensive and powerful database packages.
• MySQL uses a standard form of the well-known SQL data language.
• MySQL works on many operating systems and with many languages including
PHP, PERL, C, C++, JAVA, etc.
• MySQL works very quickly and works well even with large data sets.
• MySQL is very friendly to PHP, the most appreciated language for web
development.
• MySQL supports large databases, up to 50 million rows or more in a table. The
default file size limit for a table is 4GB, but you can increase this (if your
operating system can handle it) to a theoretical limit of 8 million terabytes (TB).

FEATURES OF MYSQL SERVER

• MySQL server design is multi-layered with independent modules.


• MySQL is fully multithreaded by using kernel threads. It can handle multiple
CPUs if they are available.
• MySQL provides transactional and non-transactional storage engines.
• MySQL has a high-speed thread-based memory allocation system.
• MySQL supports in-memory heap table.
• MySQL Handles large databases.
• MySQL Server works in client/server or embedded systems.
• MySQL Works on many different platforms.

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