MySQL is a database management system, relational database, multithreading and multiuser with more than six million installations.

On one side is released under the GNU GPL for any use consistent with this license, but for companies that want to incorporate it into proprietary products the company should buy a specific license allowing them to use MySQL in their closed source products. MySQL is developed mostly in ANSI C.

Unlike projects like Apache, where software is developed by a public community code and copyright is held by the individual author, MySQL is owned and sponsored by a private company, which owns the copyright to most of the code.

This is what enables the licensing scheme mentioned above. Besides the sale of proprietary licenses, the company offers support and services. Hire workers for its operations around the world who collaborate via the Internet. MySQL AB was founded by David Axmark, Allan Larsson and Michael Widenius.

MySQL is widely used in web applications, like Drupal or phpBB, platforms (Linux / Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP / Perl / Python), and bug tracking tools like Bugzilla. Its popularity as a Web application is closely tied to PHP, which often is in combination with MySQL. MySQL database is a very quick reading when you use non-transactional MyISAM engine, but may cause integrity problems in high concurrency environments such alterations. In web application there is low turnout in the modification of data and change the environment is data intensive reading, what makes MySQL ideal for these applications.

HostGator and MySQL

MySQL is very fast on host gator. In my almost 2 year hosting with them I never had problems with mysql what so ever. It’s very easy to create new database (you can have unlimted MySQL databases), and manage it with phpMyAdmin. The tools to create the database is MySQL databases tool and MySQL Database Wizard tool. When you want to connect to MySQL you need to create a user and add that user to the database with appropriate privileges. You can do this with the tools above. There is also an option for Remote SQl if you want to connect remotely to your database on hostgator.

PHP (acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a free scripting language mainly used for producing dynamic Web pages via HTTP – HyperText Transfer Protocol or simply internet surfing, but can also function as any interpreted language locally, by running programs command line. PHP since version 5 features offers full object model. Due to its rich library, sometimes is referred to as  PHP platform rathar than just language. PHP is used primarily as a scripting language on the server side, which means that it is the server (the machine that hosts the Web page in question) will interpret the PHP code and generate code (consisting generally of ‘XHTML or HTML, CSS, JavaScript and sometimes) which may be interpreted by a web browser. PHP can also generate other formats in connection with the Web, like WML, SVG, PDF, or bitmap images such as JPEG, GIF or PNG. That is why PHP THE web programming language is the most powerful and most popular web scripting language. It is required by popular web scripts: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Mambo, phpbb, vbulletin, mybb and many more in order for them to run. PHP with some database engine (MySQL mostly) is the back end of todays many websites including this one (WordPress powered). Most popular sites that use PHP are Facebook, Wikipedia, milions of wordpress blogs.

HostGator PHP Review

Host Gator have the latest version (PHP5 at the time of writing this review) installed on their web servers. PHP is very fast on Hostgator and it comes with many features (libraries that extend the functionality) e.g zip for managing zip archives (extract, create, list and more). You will be able to run everything from blogs like this one(wordpress), bulleting boards – forums (phpbb, vbulleting, mybb), content management systems like Joomla, Drupal and more with blazing speeds. There is even support for custom php.ini files to further customize settings, like for examle turn off or on register globals.