MySQL for Windows 6.0.4 Alpha  alpha

Publisher's Description:

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

MySQL has the following other editions available: MySQL for Linux, MySQL for FreeBSD and MySQL for Mac OS X.

Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	guti	Jun 12, 2008
Version:	6.0.4 Alpha
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
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Reviewer:	SirDarius	Feb 15, 2006
Version:	5.1.6 Alpha
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.
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Reviewer:	Mark Gillespie	Feb 15, 2006
Version:	5.1.6 Alpha
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..
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Reviewer:	cyberia	Jan 22, 2006
Version:	5.1.5 Alpha
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 :-) Sigh; beer, ya! How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy -- Nietzsche. So... For most eclectic music on the WWW and a list of my favorite 50 movies, check out my media page: http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htm
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Reviewer:	BoNeLeSS	Nov 22, 2005
Version:	5.0.16
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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