MySQL for Windows 6.0.10 Alpha

4.5 out of 5 stars 4.5 (92 votes)

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Windows 2000/9x/Server 2003/XP / Freeware / 27,173 downloads

MySQL is a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server.

Reviews of MySQL for Windows

  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    guti

    Reviewing 6.0.4 Alpha (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

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    SirDarius

    Reviewing 5.1.6 Alpha (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.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    Mark Gillespie

    Reviewing 5.1.6 Alpha (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..

  4. 3 out of 5 stars
    cyberia

    Reviewing 5.1.5 Alpha (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 :-)

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  5. 4 out of 5 stars
    BoNeLeSS

    Reviewing 5.0.16 (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

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