MySQL is the world’s second most widely used open-source relational database management system(RDBMS). However, have you ever wondered why it is called “MySQL” but “OurSQL” or “YourSQL.” In fact, the name has nothing to do with the possessive adjectives in English Grammar. Interestingly enough, it is named after co-founder Michael Widenius’ daughter, My. In this post, I am going to briefly talk about the history of development and the future of MySQL.
The first version of MySQL appeared on 23 May 1995, and was initially created for personal usage only. Soon the creators considered ISAM, the interface this version was based on, was too inflexible and slow so they created a new SQL. They created a new SQL interface while keeping the same API and underlying data structures. After a couple law suit and acquisition among several companies including Innobase, NuShere, Sun and Oracle in 2000s, MySQL is now owned by Oracle.
In the late of 200s, MySQL
was split into two main versions. One was the one Oracle-provided,
and the other version was started by Michael Widenius, and called
MariaDB.
Is the usage of MySQL
declining?
Some computer scientists
reported that Oracle was holding back MySQL Server test cases, and
the company is killing the product. In addition, the company no
longer synchronizes their changes with the open source.
Even though many companies
still use MySQL, since the final quarter of 2012, several Linus
distributions and some important users including Wikipedia and Google
started to replace MySQL with MariaDB.
My thought
I have used MySQL back when
I was making websites in high school so to me, it is a shame if it is
deprecated in the future due to the flaw of Oracle Cooperation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL
Your post was interesting but I think you could improve it by giving the key points in which MySQL and MariaDB differ. You have a couple of misspells on your post that look like they are the result of you typing fast. You should either slow down your typing or type your post in a word processor so that it can catch those misspells. In either case, reread your post before publishing it since I believe you are spelling some words correctly but it’s the wrong word.
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