It requires PHP, MySQL, and ImageMagick or the GD Graphics Library, and works with most web server software such as Apache.

Applications which use MySQL databases include: TYPO3, Joomla, WordPress, phpBB, MyBB, Drupal and other software built on the LAMP software stack.

* 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.

In the medium range, MySQL can be scaled by deploying it on more powerful hardware, such as a multi-processor server with gigabytes of memory.

There are however limits to how far performance can scale on a single server, so on larger scales, multi-server MySQL deployments are required to provide improved performance and reliability.

MySQL can also be run on cloud computing platforms such as Amazon EC2.

Listed below are some common deployment models for MySQL on the cloud:

* Virtual Machine Image-cloud users can upload a machine image of their own with MySQL installed, or use a ready-made machine image with an optimized installation of MySQL on it, such as the one provided by Amazon EC2.

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

Two notable cloud-based MySQL services are the Amazon Relational Database Service, and the Xeround Cloud Database, which runs on EC2, Rackspace and Heroku.

* 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.

The European Commission eventually unconditionally approved Oracle's acquisition of MySQL on 21 January 2010.

MariaDB is based on the same code base as MySQL server 5. 1 and strives to maintain compatibility with Oracle-provided versions.

: The developer of the Federated Storage Engine states that " The Federated Storage Engine is a proof-of-concept storage engine ", but the main distributions of MySQL version 5. 0 included it and turned it on by default.

* Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL AB on 26 February 2008.

MySQL Server 6. 0. 11-alpha was announced on May 22, 2009 as the last release of the 6. 0 line.

In early 2000 Arno Hollosi contributed a second database library to run PhpWiki on MySQL.

Running standard Linux software like MySQL, their performance results on SpecJBB rank among the highest on record.

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.

Drupal runs on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running PHP ( including Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, Hiawatha, Cherokee or Nginx ) and a database ( such as MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, or Microsoft SQL Server ) to store content and settings.

In 2007, IBM, Zend Technologies and MySQL AB announced support for the PHP programming language and the MySQL open source database on the IBM i platform.

MySQL is also used in many high-profile, large-scale World Wide Web products, including Wikipedia, Google ( though not for searches ), Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Nokia. com, and YouTube.

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

As such is planned to have many common MySQL features stripped out, including stored procedures, query cache, prepared statements, views, and triggers.

* With the advent of the Web 2. 0, dynamic technology became widely accessible, and by the mid-1990s, PHP and MySQL became ( with Apache ) the backbone of many sites, making programming knowledge unnecessary to publish to the web.

Lasso Server provides access to MySQL and many other databases via JDBC, ODBC, and FileMaker Pro.

Bacon has presented at many events, including: Ohio Linux Fest, Southern California Linux Expo, MySQL Conference, OSBC, Linux User & Developer Conference, Blender Conference, IBM Linux Migration Seminar, European Friends Of O ’ Reilly, d: CODE, Association For Free Software Conference, SkyCon, UKUUG Conference West Midlands IT Association, OSS Watch Conference, IBM Developer Workshop, Python UK 2007 ( after dinner speech ), various LUGs, as well as the LUGRadio Live events of which he was a principal organiser.

The DataFlex product supports many database environments: Oracle, MS-SQL, IBM DB2, MySQL and Pervasive SQL as well as any ODBC database.

Clip compiler is a multi-platform ( Linux and Windows ( Cygwin )) Clipper programming language compiler with many additional features and libraries ( for gtk, fivewin, netto, MySQL, ODBC, cti, tcp, gzip, Interbase, Oracle, Postgres ), which is quite fast, has support for Hyper-Six and FoxPro RDD's, and can compile existing Clipper source code with very minor changes.

Modules included with the server core support LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and many other databases.

Server-side facilities for either OS have similar functionality ( for example: MySQL ( database ) and many server-side programming languages ( such as the widely used PHP web programming language ) under Linux, or the proprietary SQL Server ( database ) and ASP. NET programming language under Windows ).

, MySQL offered MySQL 5. 1 in two different variants: the open source MySQL Community Server and the commercial Enterprise Server.

MySQL Cluster uses three different types of nodes ( processes ):

The library supports different DBMS, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.

Kexi can connect to different database servers such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Several different RDBMS systems are supported, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, IBM DB2, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

* MySQL database system – Prior to v5. 1, MySQL included a BDB data storage backend.

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.

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

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.

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.