description

MySQL is a open-source, free and very popular relational database management system which is developed, distributed and supported by Oracle corporation.

Type

RDBMS, SQL

Written In

C, C++

Developed By

Oracle

Customers

YouTube, Paypal, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Ebay

Releases

- 5.1 (2008-11-14)

event schedulerpartitioningplugin APIrow-based replicationserver log tables

- 5.5 (2010-12-03)

InnoDBImproved Symmetric MultiprocessingUnicode character support (utf16, utf32, utf8mb4)Enhanced partitioning

- 5.6 (2013-02-05)

Performance improvements to the query optimizerHigher transactional throughput in InnoDBNew NoSQL-style memcached APIsImprovements to partitioning for querying and managing very large tablesTIMESTAMP column type that correctly stores millisecondsImprovements to replicationInnoDB storage engine support for full-text search and improved group commit performance.

- 5.7 (2015-10-21)

supports a native JSON data type

- 8 (2018-04-19)

NoSQL Document Storeatomic and crash safe DDL sentences and JSON Extended syntaxnew functions, such as JSON table functionsimproved sortingpartial updates