Courier Service System - Features of MySQL
What is MySQL ?
- MySQL is a quick, intelligible being used for many tiny and big industry. MySQL is implemented, marketed, and supported by My SQLAB, which is a Swedish company
Features of MySQL:
- Relational Database Management System: MySQL is a relational database management system.
- Easy to use: MySQL is easy to use. You have to get only the basic knowledge of SQL. You can build and interact with MySQL with only a few simple SQL statements.
- It is secure: MySQL consist of a solid data security layer that protects sensitive data from intruders. Passwords are encrypted in MySQL.
- Free to download: MySQL is free to use and you can download it from MySQL official website.
- It is scalable: MySQL can handle almost any amount of data, up to as much as 50 million rows or more. The default file size limit is about 4 GB. However, you can increase this number to a theoretical limit of 8 TB of data.
- Allows roll-back: MySQL allows transactions to be rolled back, commit and crash recovery.
- High Performance: MySQL is faster, more reliable and cheaper because of its unique storage engine architecture.
- High Flexibility: MySQL supports a large number of embedded applications which makes MySQL very flexible.
- High Productivity: MySQL uses Triggers, Stored procedures and views which allows the developer to give a higher productivity.
Features of MySQL
Advantage of MySQL:
- Data Security
- On-Demand Scalability
- High Performance
- Round-the-Clock Uptime
- Comprehensive Transactional Support
- Complete Workflow Control
- Reduced Total Cost of Ownership
- The Flexibility of Open Source
Disadvantages MySQL:
- MySQL version is less than 5.0
- It doesn't support ROLE, COMMIT and stored procedure.
- MySQL does not support a very large database size as efficiently.
- MySQL doesn't handle transactions very efficiently and it is prone to data corruption.
- MySQL is accused that it doesn't have a good developing and debugging tool compared to paid databases.
- MySQL doesn't support SQL check constraints.
MySQL is becoming so popular because of many good reasons:
- MySQL is released under an open-source license. So you have nothing to pay to use it.
- MySQL is a very influential program in its own right. It handles a huge subset of the functionality of the most luxurious and powerful database packages.
- MySQL uses a normal form of the familiar SQL data language.
- MySQL works on many operating systems and with many languages including PHP, PERL, C, C++, JAVA etc.
- MySQL works very rapid and works well still with bulky datasets.
- MySQL is very approachable to PHP, the most appreciated language for web development.
- MySQL supports large databases, up to 50 million rows in a table.