16th entry - Reason to use MySQL 1st part

There are quite some number of concrete reason to use MySQL as referring to MySQL AB (2007), as one of the database management application for businesses purposes. Below are the reason shown;

• Scalability and flexibility. Enable developer to have the flexibility to scale the application he/she desire for storing database warehouse in the servers.
• High performance. The MySQL database server allow developer to configure the desired capacity requirement server to enable to maximize the performance of the output.
• High availability. Provide the reliability and constant uptime availability through out the day, everyday, 24 hours a week.
• Robust transaction support. Provide multiple level of support for example transaction support, deadlock support, multi-version support, distributed transaction capability and to name a few.
• Web and data warehouse strength. Capable to withhold tremendous amount of data with reliable and high speed data transaction and processing without much difficulty.

Reference
MySQL AB (2007), "MySQL AB :: Top 10 Reasons to Use MySQL",
http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/toptenreasons.html

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/