Examples include GNOME and K Desktop Environment 3 as well as the MySQL database and the PHP scripting language.

While earlier versions of BIND offered no mechanism to store and retrieve zone data in anything other than flat text files, in 2007 BIND 9. 4 DLZ made available ( as a compile-time option ) zone storage in a variety of database formats including LDAP, Berkeley DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and ODBC.

MySQL ( " My S-Q-L ", officially, but also called " My Sequel ") is the world's most used open source relational database management system ( RDBMS ) as of 2008 that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.

MySQL is a popular choice of database for use in web applications, and is a central component of the widely used LAMP open source web application software stack — LAMP is an acronym for " Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl / PHP / Python.

" Free-software-open source projects that require a full-featured database management system often use MySQL.

Users may use the included command line tools, or use MySQL " front-ends ", desktop software and web applications that create and manage MySQL databases, build database structures, back up data, inspect status, and work with data records ..

The official MySQL Workbench is a free integrated environment developed by MySQL AB, that enables users to graphically administer MySQL databases and visually design database structures.

Similar to other third-party packages, but still considered the authoritative MySQL frontend, MySQL Workbench lets users manage database design & modeling, SQL development ( replacing MySQL Query Browser ) and Database administration ( replacing MySQL Administrator ).

Third-party proprietary and free graphical administration applications ( or " front ends ") are available that integrate with MySQL and enable users to work with database structure and data visually.

Like Access, it can be used as a front-end for various database systems, including Access databases ( JET ), ODBC data sources, and MySQL or PostgreSQL.

In addition, an ODBC interface called MyODBC allows additional programming languages that support the ODBC interface to communicate with a MySQL database, such as ASP or ColdFusion.

The HTSQL-URL-based query method also ships with a MySQL adapter, allowing direct interaction between a MySQL database and any web client via structured URLs.

In this configuration, application owners do not have to install and maintain the MySQL database on their own.

* Managed MySQL cloud hosting-the database is not offered as a service, but the cloud provider hosts the database and manages it on the application owner's behalf.

MySQL works on many different system platforms, including AIX, BSDi, FreeBSD, HP-UX, eComStation, i5 / OS, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, NetBSD, Novell NetWare, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, OS / 2 Warp, QNX, Solaris, Symbian, SunOS, SCO OpenServer, SCO UnixWare, Sanos and Tru64.

On most Linux distributions the package management system can download and install MySQL with minimal effort, though further configuration is often required to adjust security and optimization settings.

This allows users on the System i platform to natively access the DB2 under the IBM i operating system ( formerly called OS / 400 ), and for users on other platforms to access these files through the MySQL interface.

Several Open Source programs have become defining entries in their space, including the GIMP image editing system ; Sun's Java programming language and environment ; the MySQL database system ; the FreeBSD Unix operating system ; Sun's OpenOffice. org office productivity suite ; and the Wireshark network packet sniffer and protocol analyser.

IonPanel was a website management system written using PHP and MySQL.

MySQL AB is the creator of MySQL, a relational database management system, as well as related products such as MySQL Cluster.

To accommodate this transition, the Lasso administration system is modified by pointing the alias ' info ' to the new MySQL database.

It is written in PHP and primarily uses MySQL as a database management system, although support for other database engines is available.

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic content management system ( CMS ) based on PHP and MySQL.

WAMP is an acronym formed from the initials of the operating system Microsoft Windows and the principal components of the package: Apache, MySQL and one of PHP, Perl or Python.

b2evolution is a multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database.

* Eve Community-A hosted Java / MySQL based community system targeted towards enterprise customers.

** Forum ( originally UBB. x )-A Java-based internet forum system first released in 2002 as a descendant of OpenTopic but used a MySQL database instead of Oracle.

* UBB. threads ( formerly WWWThreads )-A PHP / MySQL based internet forum system acquired by Social Strata in 2001.

; Database: XOOPS uses a relational database ( currently MySQL ) to store data required for running a web-based content management system.

The database abstraction layer enables the use of most common databases, i. e. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle, without changes to the core system, by using drivers.

MaxDB is an ANSI SQL-92 ( entry level ) compliant relational database management system ( RDBMS ) from SAP AG, which was delivered also by MySQL AB from 2003 to 2007.

* Adminer – a free MySQL front end written in one PHP script, capable of managing multiple databases, with many CSS skins available.

* DaDaBIK – a free and open-source customizable CRUD front-end to MySQL.

* DBEdit – a free front end for MySQL and other databases.

* HeidiSQL – a full featured free front end that runs on Windows, and can connect to local or remote MySQL servers to manage databases, tables, column structure, and individual data records.

* OpenOffice. org – OpenOffice. org Base can manage MySQL databases if the entire suite is installed.

* Toad for MySQL – a free development and administration front end for MySQL from Quest Software

* MariaDB – a community-developed branch of the MySQL database, the impetus being the community maintenance of its free status under GPL as opposed to any uncertainty of MySQL license status under its current ownership by Oracle.

Database management systems frequently provide database server functionality, and some DBMSs ( e. g., MySQL ) rely exclusively on the client – server model for database access.

This may or may not affect behavior in the applications layer, depending largely on whether the data manipulation language or protocol has changed – but modern applications are written to be agnostic to the database technology so that a change from Sybase, MySQL, DB2 or SQL Server to Oracle should only require a testing cycle to be confident that both functional and non-functional performance has not been adversely affected.

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* XBT Tracker – C ++ BitTorrent tracker designed for performance ( does not serve. torrent files or other web pages ); requires MySQL