Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 19-1.
Prominent Services and Features of the MySQL Editions
The original creator of MySQL is a Swedish company called MySQL AB. The
company had been in operation for over ten years (1995 - 2008), before being acquired
by Sun Microsystems, which has been recently acquired by Oracle. In the early stages,
MySQL was used primarily for internal purposes. Over the past five years, the product's
ascendancy to international acclaim has been quite noticeable. MySQL runs on multiple
platforms, including Unix, Linux, Windows, Solaris, and MacOS. The maximum
tablespace size supported is 64 TB. Database tables can be of any size up to this limit.
MySQL brings a number of advantages to the database arena. These are summarized
in Figure
19-2
.
Figure 19-2.
Main Benefits of MySQL
