Even as newer databases emerged, MySQL remained a default choice for millions of deployments, from small business applications to large-scale web infrastructure. As of 2025, ...

MariaDB® Corporation, the company behind the fastest growing open source database, today announced that MariaDB Server replaces MySQL as the default in Debian 9, a popular Linux distribution.

By default, MySQL supports three database engines: ISAM, MyISAM, and HEAP. Two other types, InnoDB and Berkley (BDB), are often available as well. ISAM ...

Verdict: Different databases for different needs. Both MySQL and PostgreSQL are powerful open source relational databases, but they excel in different areas, which makes each more suitable for ...

I'm using MySQL Query Browser (latest version, with the latest version of MySQL).I am creating and storing a UUID value in a char(36) field. ... MySQL default values.

Red Hat will switch the default database in its enterprise distribution, RHEL, from MySQL to MariaDB, when version 7 is released. According to news from the Red Hat summit which concludes in ...