Tuesday, March 27, 2007

15th entry - MySQL database

As discussed in the previous entry regarding SQL, it is a language that been used in the database management server systems. Thus MySQL is an open source database application for data management.

It is one of the popular database language for web application and database component for platform such as Linux, Mac, Windows, Apache, PHP, Perl, Python.

The business benefit referring from MySQL AB (2007), that uses MySQL are:
  • Reducing the cost of database licensing costs over by 90%
  • Prevent system downtime by more than 50% to 60%
  • Reducing hardware spending
  • Reducing administration cost
  • Reducing engineering cost
  • Reducing support cost
  • Ease the management of database
  • Improve network bandwidth transmission
Reference
MySQL AB (2007), "MySQL AB :: About MySQL AB",
http://www.mysql.com/company/

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