MySQL
Widely-used open-source relational database owned by Oracle.
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Get started
$ brew install mysqlOfficial install command — always check the documentation for your platform.
Useful for
- Web app databases
Strengths & trade-offs
Where it shines
- Ubiquitous, fast for read-heavy web workloads, ultra-familiar to hosts
- Replication is simple and battle-tested
Watch out for
- Fewer advanced features than Postgres (weaker JSON, fewer extensions)
- Dialect fragmentation across forks (MySQL vs MariaDB)
Editorial assessment — verify against your own requirements before committing.