MySQL
The relational server that ran the early web, now Oracle-stewarded and InnoDB-based.
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What MySQL is
MySQL is a thread-per-connection relational server whose default InnoDB engine gives clustered primary-key storage, MVCC via undo logs and mature binary-log replication. Oracle ships it under GPLv2 with a commercial licence for redistribution, on an LTS plus innovation-release cadence. Its strengths are operational: online DDL on very large tables and replication topologies that have been run at extreme scale for two decades.