Database management is critical to businesses of any size, across all industry sectors. When companies are seeking to improve their database management, take it to the cloud or on-premise, there are many considerations.
Public and private cloud solutions are often the most talked about, but today, security has risen in hierarchy and become the number one factor that IT managers consider.
What is MYSQL?
Oracle’s MySQL is not only the world’s most recognizable database management solution, it is also the most cost effective and advanced. Companies are scrambling to embrace MySQL community version when they start off, but it’s the new and innovative MySQL Heatwave that is sending ripples across database managers worldwide.
Why? Simply, it has such incomparable sophistication in its security platform that anyone in the FinTech and AdTech space are realizing that there are no other solutions quite like it. It also has cost-effectiveness that competitors cannot match.
Among the millions of users and support from the world’s leading database company, MYSQL is used by many database-driven web applications.
Popular websites that are using MYSQL include Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Uber and YouTube to name a few.
We will be going through why MySQL is pivotal to digital transformation.
Handles Demanding Web Applications
MySQL is optimized and designed to have the capabilities for demanding web applications.
For web applications such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Uber and many other large organizations, MySQL has the power to count their high-traffic websites and business critical systems.
Real-Time Reporting and Analytics
As MySQL Database Service are equipped with a built-in business intelligence, it improves productivity by automating time-consuming tasks with real-time reporting and analytics for better, faster decision making.
With the new MySQL Heatwave, it removes the complexity and gives it a simpler approach in movement in between data stores.
Security
Being globally renowned as the most safe and reliable database management system, MySQL uses security based on Access Control Lists (ACLs) for all of their connections, queries and many other operations that users are able to perform.
ACLs specifies the list of rules that users or systems are able to be granted or denied access to, depending on the particular object or the system resource.
Advanced security features such as host-based verification, data masking and password encryptions are available for users for extra security and control.
High Performance, Low Cost
Many businesses regard the cloud as their starting point and foundation of digital transformation. It allows the delivery of a more stable database services at a lower cost.
MySQL Heatwave accelerates performances by 400% times for analytics queries which scales out to the thousands of cores.
This makes MySQL’s performance 2.7X faster at around one-third of their direct competitors’ prices.
Organizations using MySQL database for managing their enterprise data has the ability to run analytic queries with substantially better and improved performance, as well as potentially reducing operational costs by up to 90%.
Google, Amazon and other cloud computing providers will either be offering services that are MySQL-based or integrated products delivery with MySQL.
24×7 Support
In the digital world, it is vital for web platforms and online businesses to be able to provide a round-the-clock service for a global audience.
Which is why they choose to use MySQL and its core features.
With the variety of cluster servers and other data replication configurations, it provides the
user an uninterrupted uptime even if there is a possible disruption in the system.
There are also a range of different backup and recovery strategies that MySQL ensures so that that data isn’t lost or corrupted due to a system crash.
MySQL’s market segment is continuously evolving due to all the advantages the data solution offers.
With the new release of their innovative MySQL Heatwave, it has created waves in the world of databases.
With millions of users using it, the product has established itself due to its strong features, reliability and powerful tools that makes it pivotal to the digital transformation.
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