Description:

MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL (Structured Query
Language) database server. SQL is the most popular database language
in the world. MySQL is a client/server implementation that consists of
a server daemon mysqld and many different client programs/libraries.

The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and easy to use. MySQL
was originally developed because we at Tcx needed a SQL server that
could handle very big databases with magnitude higher speed than what
any database vendor could offer to us. We have now been using MySQL
since 1996 in a environment with more than 40 databases, 10,000
tables, of which more than 500 have more than 7 million rows. This is
about 50G of mission critical data.

The base upon which MySQL is built is a set of routines that have been
used in a highly demanding production environment for many years.
While MySQL is still in development, it already offers a rich and
highly useful function set.