MySQL is a widely-used relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses Structured Query Language (SQL) for data access and management. MySQL features high performance, stability, and ease of use, which helps MySQL become a top choice for Internet applications and data-intensive business. This series of topics describes how to deploy and install the MySQL service on Linux and Windows Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances by using various methods and how to remotely access MySQL databases on the instances.
Benefits of MySQL
MySQL provides the following competitive benefits:
Open source and cost-effectiveness: MySQL is open source software that can be downloaded and used free of charge. MySQL is suitable for enterprises and developers seeking to reduce costs.
Robust community support: The vast and active MySQL community is home to a large number of users and developers and provides extensive support, tutorials, and resources.
High performance and scalability: MySQL provides high performance when it processes read-intensive operations. MySQL is suitable for large database applications that require high query performance and supports horizontal scaling.
Broad platform compatibility: MySQL is compatible with nearly all operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows you to flexibly deploy MySQL across various environments.
Ease of use: MySQL provides straightforward languages and commands, which facilitates beginners to get started with MySQL. In addition, MySQL provides a number of GUI tools, such as MySQL Workbench, to simplify database management.
Security: MySQL is embedded with robust data security and access control mechanisms and supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections and multi-level user permission management.
Replication and clustering: MySQL supports various replication methods, such as primary-secondary replication and group replication, and offers clustering solutions to enhance availability and data redundancy.
Common MySQL deployment methods
Windows instances
Deploy a MySQL database on an ECS Windows instance
Linux instances
References
If you want to efficiently manage databases and use a highly available, reliable, secure, and scalable managed database service, you can use Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB RDS. ApsaraDB RDS is a stable, reliable, and scalable relational database service that supports the MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB engines. ApsaraDB RDS offers a full set of solutions for disaster recovery, backup, restoration, and migration. For more information, see What is ApsaraDB RDS?
You can use Data Transmission Service (DTS) to smoothly migrate data from self-managed databases to Alibaba Cloud databases. For more information, see Overview of data migration scenarios and Migrate data from a self-managed MySQL database to an ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL instance.
You can use Database Backup (DBS) to reduce the time and cost consumed for data backup. DBS is a cost-effective and highly reliable cloud-native database backup platform provided by Alibaba Cloud. For more information, see What is DBS?