Online Applications
Are you planning to build an online application? MySQL has become the #1 database choice for delivering online applications. MySQL powers more online applications than any other database in the world including such high profile web sites as: Yahoo!, Google, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and thousands of corporate online applications.
Why? Because MySQL is easy, safe, reliable, cost-effective, and very fast! With MySQL Enterprise you can:
- Deliver your online application in a matters of hours, not days or weeks
- Implement a modern infrastructure leveraging the popular open source LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python)
- Scale your applications without limit
- Significantly reduce your TCO by minimizing your initial investment and keeping costs low over time
- Reduce administrative overhead with an easy to use database that just works!
- Get fast answers and assistance when you need it
MySQL's unique pluggable storage engine architecture lets you develop your application with purpose-built storage engines that best match your needs. Moreover, the combination of MySQL's rock solid stability, high performance, low overhead and ease of use make it an ideal choice for your next online application.
Mike Edmunds, Chief Operating Officer, Simple Star
Some of the most common applications implemented by our customers include:
- eCommerce such as online shopping applications and online banking services
- Gaming including online gambling and multi-player online games
- Dynamic Content Generation for serving up news, stock quotes, rss feeds and more
- User Profile, Authorization & Authentication for providing secure access to sensitive data
- Logging and click-through analysis to better understand online customer behavior
- Customer Service such as online tracking of parcels being delivered
- Session Management for implementing online shopping cart applications and improving online user experience.
MySQL Enterprise helps you to cost-effectively ensure that your business-critical online applications are always up and running, scale to meet your exponential growth needs and that you can get immediate expert assistance whenever you need it. Contact us now to learn more about MySQL Enterprise, and if it could be the right solution for your next online project.
The world is going online! Whether we communicate, share, play or trade, whether we are consumers or corporations, an increasing amount of our daily business is conducted online. The trend is unstoppable. Today's web infrastructure is tomorrow's enterprise infrastructure, and Open Source software, including MySQL, represents the foundation of this "always on" online world.
Free Resources:
Whitepapers
- How MySQL Powers web 2.0
- Session Management with MySQL
- Look to Book: A guide for Online Retailers
- MySQL Pluggable Storage Engine Series - Falcon
- What's new in MySQL Cluster 5.1
- MySQL Enterprise, Enterprise-Class Open Source Software
Customer Stories
- Yahoo! Powers Multiple Properties with MySQL
- BBC News Website uses MySQL to Monitor Reader Interest
- neckermann.de achieves cost-effective database scalability with MySQL Cluster
- mixi Delivers Massive Scale-out with MySQL
- PokerRoom.com Powers High Transaction Online Poker System with MySQL
- Citysearch Saves Over $1 Million Using MySQL
On demand Webinars
- The LAMP Stack in Modern Enterprises, hosted by Marten Mickos
- Session Management with MySQL
- Look-to-Book: Why MySQL is a Great Fit for Online Travel Retailers
- Synchronizing MySQL-based applications with Mobile Devices
- MySQL Performance Tuning Best Practices
- Coding and Indexing Strategies for Optimal Performance
- LAMP - Security for the Web 2.0
- Web 2.0 Tags and Folksonomy: Schema Design for Scalability and Performance
- Collaboration and Ajax in a Web 2.0 World
MySQL Online Partners
MySQL AB partners with leading modern enterprise software as a service providers including Alfresco, Jaspersoft, Pentaho, SugarCRM, Zimbra, Zmanda and many others.