Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

guti reviewed v6.0.4 Alpha on Jun 12, 2008

6.0 looks promising, let's see how Sun is able to do the job (hope that better than with Java).

BTW, not recent news. 6.0.4 alfa, was out since february... http://dev.mysql.com/doc.../6.0/en/news-6-0-4.html

SirDarius reviewed v5.1.6 Alpha on Feb 15, 2006

Mark, you're forgetting to mention that BDB and InnoDB are only two of the many storages engines provided with MySQL (MyISAM, Memory, MERGE, NDB, ISAM...).
Thanks to MySQL's modular design, it will always possible to design alternative storage engines.

By the way, it's highly doubtful Oracle wants to shut down MySQL, since they don't really aim at the same audience.

Mark Gillespie reviewed v5.1.6 Alpha on Feb 15, 2006

Very good backend DB. I wonder if this will be the last release, now that Oracle own both the backend data stores (BerkelyDB and InnoDB). if they want, Oracle can now suffocate MySQL..

cyberia reviewed v5.1.5 Alpha on Jan 22, 2006

I use MySQL. It's part of the build-it-yourself culture, whether corporate or a home server... BUT it's not a toy. For a system that's been around as long as it has, and has become as much of a standard as it is, it could use:

1. Greater stability

and...

2. Better documentation! (I'd put that in caps, but it would still be an understatement).

It's time for the people who have been working on MySQL from the get-go to lose the hubris and do the mature thing of using specialists for testing and writing.

I could say the same thing about many other apps, but I've spent all day on an Error 1067, I can't find a useful thread on it, and I've done major shredding of the the machine that it's on, so, whah, whah, wah, I'm entitled :-)

Sigh; beer, ya!

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy -- Nietzsche. So...
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BoNeLeSS reviewed v5.0.16 on Nov 22, 2005

Nice software... There are more feature complete open source databases like Firebird or PostgreSQL or more lightwheight like SQLite, but MySQL is a convenient half-way between both worlds.

Anyway I'll wait some time more before migrating to 5.0.x series from 4.1.x

panic82 reviewed v5.0.15 on Oct 24, 2005

To gruiiik and danagould: it sounds as if commercial applications can use the GPL license as long as the commercial application itself is licensed under a GPL compatible license. If you build and distribute a proprietary, closed source application, you will need to purchase the commercial licenses.

See here for more info: http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/

By the way - MySQL 5 kicks ass!

gruiiik reviewed v5.0.13 RC on Oct 4, 2005

Nop, your wrong, i've contacted the mysql reseller, and you have to paid if you want to use mysql server in a commercial program.

danagould reviewed v5.0.13 RC on Sep 27, 2005

Gruiiik, you're right there are license issues if you modify and try redistributing MySQL without distributing your changes, but the GPL doesn't restrict the *use* of the program in any way.

From Section 1 of the GPL (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/gpl-license.html), "The act of running the Program is not restricted, ..."

So you can *use* MySQL for any purpose, including commercial, even with your own "secret code" mixed in, just as long as you're not redistributing it too.

gruiiik reviewed v5.0.9 Beta on Jul 16, 2005

netwiz562 your wrong, there is a big licence issue. The licence of MySQL is GPL, therefor you cannot use it in a commercial program without giving your source code.

Anyway you can buy MySQL to remove the GPL thing, so mysql is not free for commercial program.

Personaly i use FireBird as database, and i love it.

netwiz562 reviewed v5.0.7 Beta on Jun 16, 2005

MySQL is just wonderful, although there may be other more powerful DBs, for most purposes MySQL is enough (and w/ 5 there are stored procedures and more bring it closer to some others such as MS SQL). MySQL is also free unlike MS SQL, which allows it to be used easily widespread because there are no licensing issues.

I'll have to check out MS SQL Express..... I'm guessing it has lots of limits compared to MS SQL since its free

scriptee reviewed v5.0.7 Beta on Jun 15, 2005

MySQL is definately my favorite database. I normally start a project using MS Access which gives problems but is easy to use, so I switch to mySQL and everything works like a charm.

The things I dont like about it is getting stored procedures to work with the .NET connector, it just doesnt work. There is a bug report to fix it but the developers keep saying that its not valid or something.

Anyways, best rdb imho ! :-)

Joco reviewed v5.0.7 Beta on Jun 15, 2005

SQL Server 2005 Express is free:
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/express/default.mspx

MySQL is just toy.

wingo reviewed v5.0.7 Beta on Jun 15, 2005

can someone tell me the easiest way to learn mysql?

sn0wflake reviewed v5.0.6 Beta on Jun 2, 2005

Black-Wolf: I don't think SQL Server stinks once you know it's true potential. I'm a former LAMP developer but I'm currently employed in a Microsoft Gold Partner company where I've learned many things about stored procedures. Think of stored procedures as a development environment inside the SQL server that also makes SQL injection virtually impossible. Another thing is enforced relationships. Damn nice feature that forces you to insert/delete/update everything so it conforms with the most strict database rules. I don't know if MySQL can do that but please inform me if it can and please provide me with some links to prove that it can.

jdrsantos reviewed v5.0.6 Beta on Jun 2, 2005

Yep, Caleb, "don't even think of comparing it to Oracle" specially on price, eh eh
Ah, btw on MySQL homepage you can read "Over six million installations use MySQL to power high-volume Web sites and other critical business systems — including industry-leaders like The Associated Press, Yahoo, NASA, Sabre Holdings and Suzuki.".
Maybe these entreprises don't know anything about RDBMS, eh ;)

Caleb reviewed v5.0.3 Beta on Mar 28, 2005

Looks like Black-Wolf doesn't know anything about RDBMS.

MySQL still has a way to go to reach the level of features provided by MSSQL/PostgreSQL, and please, don't even think of comparing it to Oracle heh.

Black-Wolf reviewed v5.0.1 Alpha on Aug 4, 2004

MySQL is by far the most powerful and easiest to use software.

MS SQL & Oracle stink when they meet MySQL.

guti reviewed v5.0.0 Alpha on Dec 26, 2003

I have removed the support from InnoDB tables by using skip-innodb, now very fast, and with low memory consumption.

guti reviewed v4.0.8 Gamma on Jan 9, 2003

Very fast!
Unfortunatelly the Classic version (without transactions) is only distributed as a commercial product, so it requires a lot of more memory.

BoNeLeSS reviewed v4.0.8 Gamma on Jan 8, 2003

Better than Oracle and MS SQL server?. Nah...

Its just better for simple applications, but still lacks of enterprise features.

MySQL is excelent for simple applications but can't compete with Oracle in critical areas.

trapanator reviewed v4.0.8 Gamma on Jan 8, 2003

Excellent! Faster and Better than: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and others! And it's free!

ook reviewed v4.0.6 Gamma on Dec 21, 2002

> Great if you want speed with a low amount of
> concurrent connections, and you can live without
> views, transactions, row level locking, foreign keys....

I use views, transactions and foreign keys all the time with MySQL. These are easily supported by the client if you use a good front end database tool, like VFP. Use a real front end instead of that Visual Basic kiddie program.

> 260,000 members, 15,000 messageboard posts,
> and 17,000 individual peices of text content
> (song lyrics) - would MySQL be able to keep up
> with serving this stuff? Expect two million hits
>per week...

Or course it can....

mayakovski reviewed v4.0.6 Gamma on Dec 21, 2002

THE BEST.

GarryUK reviewed v4.0.4 Beta on Oct 2, 2002

Another release of MySQL - another working version. MySQL is great. Fits my needs perfectly, although I should really be thanking the php devs for writing the interface functions. Also - why do people give a programme a "1" just because it doesn't work on their system? Which, 99% of the time, is a user error. If it doesn't work for you (and you seem to be the only one) just don't review it. Don't bring down the average score of a great (free) programme.

Rollie reviewed v4.0.3 Alpha on Sep 3, 2002

Not anymore, even SF.net realized MySQL`s not enough for their needs. Hopefully DB2 will be. ;)

guti reviewed v4.0.2 Alpha on Jul 11, 2002

charliestout, do you know Sourceforge?
It proves MySQL can!

charliestout reviewed v4.0.2 Alpha on Jul 11, 2002

Imagine a website with 260,000 members, 15,000 messageboard posts, and 17,000 individual peices of text content (song lyrics) - would MySQL be able to keep up with serving this stuff? Expect two million hits per week...

guti reviewed v4.0.0a Alpha on Dec 24, 2001

By the way, the news are the release of MySQL 4.0.1, and not the 4.0.0a for Windows which is about 1 month old.
The 4.0.1 version has not still been compiled for Windows, I expect it to happen in 3 or 4 days...

mr_q reviewed v3.23.29a Gamma on Dec 23, 2000

Why bother using MySQL when you can have a robust, fast, flexible, multi-OS supporting AND open-source SQL server like InterBase.. I used MySQL for a while, but stepped back from it when IB was released as OpenSource. And ofcourse it supports all RDBMS stuff like Views, Stored Procs, etc etc etc

lamp77 reviewed v3.23.27 Beta on Nov 14, 2000

Every distribution I get gives me a CRC error, I've tried a bunch of mirrors to no avail. about 80% of the way through unzipping data1.cab it errors out.

Crap, I was looking forward to it as well.

jogoodma reviewed v3.23.25 Beta on Sep 28, 2000

FYI, the latest beta of MySQL does support transactions.

Tridus reviewed v3.23.24 on Sep 10, 2000

Great if you want speed with a low amount of concurrent connections, and you can live without views, transactions, row level locking, foreign keys, and other things that make a RDBMS package what it is. Of course, if your doing serious database work, then you will need these things, in which case mySQL will suck. Its good for running websites though, where none of that is terribly important compaired to raw speed.

Zanshin reviewed v3.23.24 on Sep 10, 2000

Sweet! Interestingly I installed the shareware win32 binary distro of MySQL (which works very well btw) just a few days ago. I'm glad there's finally a freeware binary distro for windows.

CTPEKO3A reviewed v3.23.23 on Sep 3, 2000

Why the heck anyone wants to use SQL database wothout transaction support now? Is that some kind of masochism?

Jeb002 reviewed v3.23.23 on Sep 3, 2000

How do use this program? I'm a bit new when it comes to SQL but I'm trying to learn, do you have to have Microsoft SQl 7.0 installed to use it?

McGarrah reviewed v3.23.23 on Sep 3, 2000

I love it. We operate a fully dynamic site that generates all pages from a MySQL database. Update the MySQL tables and BANG our site is updated. The amazing thing is that we take between 1.2 and 2 million hits a month.

reidyn reviewed v3.23.23 on Sep 3, 2000

Huh???? I've never gotten a MySQL error here.... I come here all the time. To the point: This is a great deal. A free SQL server is welcome.

jrcamp reviewed v3.23.23 on Sep 3, 2000

Don't rate a damn program unless you have used it yourself or are putting idiots (like you) back in your place. Have you ever thought that it was BetaNew's fault? Apparently not.

CPUGuy reviewed v3.23.23 on Sep 3, 2000

I don't know why someone would want to use it seeing how much trouble betanews.com has with it. I come to the site constantly and get MySQL errors usually at least once a week.