
XAMPP is a free and open-source cross-platform web server solution stack package developed by Apache Friends, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages. I will suggest you choose either XAMPP or MySQL server. I’ll suggest you use Command Line prompt mode for better learning. XAMPP can be used in both User interface and also Command Line prompt. In addition, XAMPP is a cross-platform web server software which consists of Apache, MySQL (now MariaDB), PHP, Perl. There is another way we can learn MySQL that is XAMPP which is completely free and open-source software. The basic difference is MySQL Workbench gives you the friendly user interface and MySQL server is just a command-line prompt that is just a black screen to write queries. To learn and practice either you can download and install MySQL server any version or MySQL Workbench or both. How to install and download MySQL?īefore downloading and installing any software, let us understand which software or platform is best for the purpose of learning and practice.

MySQL server supports a very large database having millions of records. It is not completely free, some of the products of MySQL are paid like MySQL Standard Edition, MySQL Enterprise Edition, MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition. Actually MySQL is a server-side software for the Relational Database Management System. MySQL is software that broadly written in C/C++ and is used to manage databases. It is not a programing Language but it uses the language that is SQL. Its database system is used by popular companies some of which are Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Uber, Netflix, Amazon, Sony, GitHub, etc. Now Oracle Corporation has two main Database Products or systems are Oracle Database which is not open Source and MySQL which is open source. But Later MySQL is now owned by Oracle Corporation in 2010. And the first time it releases in 1995 as open-source. It was first designed and developed by a Swedish Company- MySQL AB in the year 1994. It works on many Operating System (OS) like Windows, Linux, Macintosh (Apple OS), Solaris, FreeBSD. MySQL is one of the most popular open-source which means freely available Relational Database Management System. So far we have learned enough about Data, Database, DBMS, RDBMS, and SQL before going to understand MySQL.

Steps to download MySQL Server for Windows.Similarly, we will talk about more platforms. In this blog, we will learn What is MySQL? And also step by step how to install MySQL on the Windows platform using the MySQL Installer and Xampp.
