MySQL is an open-source relational database management system first released by the Swedish company MySQL AB, founded by Michael Widenius, David Axmark and Allan Larsson. It used the SQL query language and was designed to be fast and easy to install, which suited the web applications that were multiplying in the late 1990s and 2000s. It became a core part of the LAMP stack, alongside Linux, Apache and PHP, and was used by many large sites including early versions of Facebook, Wikipedia and Twitter. Sun Microsystems bought MySQL AB in 2008, and Oracle acquired Sun in 2010. Widenius then started a compatible fork called MariaDB over concerns about the future of the project under Oracle.
Before and after
- 17 January 1995Great Hanshin Earthquake
- 20 March 1995Tokyo subway sarin attack
- 19 April 1995Oklahoma City bombing
- 30 April 1995The Internet opens to commercial use
- 23 May 1995Release of MySQL
- 25 May 1995Tuzla massacre
- from 25 May 1995 to 26 May 1995May 1995 Pale air strikes
- 8 June 1995Creation of PHP
- 24 June 1995Nelson Mandela presents the Rugby World Cup to South Africa's captain
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The era
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