- Swedish Company: MySQL AB by – Michael Widenius (Monty), David Axmark and Allan Larsson
- Name Combination: Michael’s Daughter name –“My” and SQL
- Initially – PHP DB Extension to open source – not suitable for DBMS – Developed in(C & C++) for
- Retrieve data – Website
- Free DB servers for website with PHP developers,
- Recompile with developer
- Add storage engine as a plugin
- Various members to introduce various storage engine to avoid Third parties.
- SP/View/Triggers/Functions were not available.
- Internal version release in – 1995
- 3.19 – 3.20: Release in – 1996-97
- 3.21 – 3.23: Major releases (For production) – 1998-2000
- 4.0 – 4.1: Working towards RDBMS (Sub Queries /B-Tree) – 2001-2004
- 5.0: Major release introduce as RDBMS – SP, trigger, View and Transaction – 2005
- Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL AB for 1Bn – 2008
- 5.1: Replication and most of the Bug fixed – 2008
- 5.5: Release – Performance Improvement and many features -2010
- Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems on 27 January 2010 for 7.4Bn
- The name of the MySQL Dolphin (logo) is “Sakila,”
- MySQL 5.7: announced in October 2015 (Latest version is 5.7.22 –as on Apr, 2018)
- 6.0.11- alpha was announced on 22 May 2009 – but not released 😦
- 7.x: Version are assigned to NDB Cluster.
- MySQL 8.0: was announced 12 September 2016 – Latest version
Reference:
Vinay Thakur 