Introduction to MySQL

What is MySQL?

MySQL is world's most popular open source relational database management system (RDBMS). It provides secure and effective way to manage your database applications.

MySQL is developed and supported by Oracle. It is an important component of web application software stack known as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python).

Applications of MySQL

Some applications that uses MySQL are as follows:

• Joomla
• YouTube
• Google
• facebook
• Twitter

Advantages of MySQL

Some advantages of MySQL are as follows:

• Open source – MySQL comes under open source license. So, it is free to use.
• Cross-platform- It consists of simple and robust pre-defined commands.
• Support Unicode – It supports Unicode standard to express world's most languages. 
• Cache query –  It stores the cache data to serve future requests faster.

Disadvantage of MySQL

Some disadvantages of MySQL are as follows:

• Degradation of performance- The performance of MySQL degrades when it deals with large size data.
• Stability issue- Still, MySQL is not capable to handle certain functions such as transactions and auditing.
• Hard to scale – It faces problem to handle lot of operations simultaneously.