MySQL 5

Revolution in the database world is OpenSource.

One of the pillars of any website is its database, a basic point of any website development and that basically withstands all the things that the user views. MySQL5 is one of the most used databases in the world. Being as popular a contents manager system that Drupal, Wordpress or phpBB.

  The databases managed using MySQL 5 offer very interesting features, being relational, multithread and multiuser databases, that work on many different platforms.

  Even though MySQL is a basically OpenSource project, the real owners are Sun Microsystems, that are at the same time owned by Oracle. Nevertheless, the MySQL 5 nucleus is free and can used in any project without any problem. And both these companies, and some third party companies, offer support and encourage the use of this brilliant relational database management system (RDBMS).

  What's more, MySQL 5 has APIs that allow it to be used by applications that have been written in dozens of programing languages like C, C++, C##, Pascal, Delphi, Eiffel, Smalltalk, Java, Lisp, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby,Gambas, REALbasic (Mac), (x)Harbour (Eagle1), FreeBASIC, and Tcl, making  MySQL 5 one of the most flexible databases that exists.

  This data base has many features that allow it to be at the same level as other professional developments that should be theoretically superior.