MySQL
More info
- Creator
- Michael Widenius, David Axmark
- Released
- Owner
- Oracle Corporation
- Type
- Relational database
- License
- GPL-2.0 / commercial
- Website
- mysql.com
- Source
- github.com/mysql
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
The most-used open source relational database — the "M" in the LAMP stack.
Bought by Oracle in 2010. The open source fork MariaDB now powers many Linux distros. Not as capable as Postgres feature-wise, but fast, simple and ubiquitous. The default on shared hosting (cPanel, etc).