MySQL Community Edition is the freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database. It is available under the GPL license and is supported by a huge and active community of open source developers.

The MySQL Community Edition includes:

• Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture
• Multiple Storage Engines:
  • InnoDB
  • MyISAM
  • NDB (MySQL Cluster)
  • Memory
  • Merge
  • Archive
  • CSV
  • and more
• MySQL Replication to improve application performance and scalability
• MySQL Partitioning to improve performance and management of large database applications
• Stored Procedures to improve developer productivity
• Triggers to enforce complex business rules at the database level
• Views to ensure sensitive information is not compromised
• Performance Schema for user/application level monitoring of resource consumption
• Information Schema to provide easy access to metadata
• MySQL Connectors (ODBC, JDBC,.NET, etc) for building applications in multiple languages
• MySQL Workbench for visual modeling, SQL development and administration