Consistent high performance, reliability, and ease of use makes it the world's most popular open source database.
It has become a database of choice for new generation applications built on Linux, Apache, Python, Perl and PHP.

A recent Computerworld article, "MySQL Breaks Into the Data Center" revealed how MySQL has become the world's most popular open source database and why corporations intent on lowering their cost of operations are using it to further commoditize their IT infrastructure.

MySQL reduces the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of database software by:

	Reducing database licensing costs by over 90%		Lowering hardware expenditure by 70%
	Cutting systems downtime by 60%		Reducing administration, engineering and support costs by up to 50%

We needed a database for indexing and cataloging and thus had to choose one that was simple yet up to the task. We selected MySQL from a gamut of many others for its simplicity and this simplicity make it a very fast database for its typical use in indexing.

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