Embedded Database Products for OEMs & ISVs

The MySQL Embedded Database is full-featured, zero administration database that enables ISVs and OEMs to bring their applications and solutions to market faster. MySQL's small footprint and support for 20+ platforms gives ISVs and OEMs ultimate flexibility to ship a highly reliable SQL compliant, transactional database with just about any software application or hardware appliance, on any platform. Hundreds of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Value Added Resellers (VARs) have chosen MySQL, making it the most popular choice for those who want to cost-effectively embed or bundle a reliable, high-performance, zero administration relational database.

The MySQL Embedded Database enables OEM/ISV/VARs to:

• Deliver a differentiated solution that can capture, store and report on data with speed and granularity by embedding a full-featured, relational database
• Bring applications to market faster by embedding a proven database rather than building and maintaining a proprietary database in-house
• Reduce COGS and improve profitability by embedding a cost-effective database solution without artificial license restrictions on CPU, memory, and servers
• Win competitive comparisons using a SQL compliant, relational database with superior performance and reliability
• Deliver a Zero Administration solution so that their customer don't have to hire dedicated DBA resources
• Make reporting and analysis easy using a cost-effective open source reporting solutions like Jasper for MySQL: OEM Edition.

MySQL: Proven by Technology Leaders Worldwide

For over ten years, MySQL has been a popular choice among leading technology companies worldwide. MySQL is embedded or bundled by leading companies including Adobe, Cisco, Motorola, NEC, Nortel, SAP, SAS, Siemens, Sony, and Symantec. MySQL is the popular choice for the following types of applications:

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With more than 50,000 downloads of our database every day, our reputation has been built on understanding the needs of OEM customers and delivering the software, support and services to make them successful. MySQL provides OEM, ISV and VARs with the following benefits:

Zero Administration

For ISVs to maximize their revenue potential they must design their application so that it can run without the help of a dedicated DBA. Small and medium sized business can't afford the overhead of a dedicated DBA to run their business critical applications. Even large enterprises don't want to be required to hire dedicated resources to manage their packaged applications. MySQL's ease of installation, pre-configured option files and self-management features like automatic space expansion, auto-restart, and dynamic configuration changes make it a perfect fit for shipping with packaged applications or hardware appliances. In fact, a MySQL installation is typically completed being less than fifteen minutes. These low/zero administration features help lower management costs both for the OEM/ISV/VARs and their customers.

Easy to Install, Configure & Use

MySQL was designed to be easy to install, configure, and get into production fast. MySQL offers exceptional quick-start capabilities with the average time from software download to installation completion being less than 15 minutes. This rule holds true whether the platform is Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh, or UNIX. At the same time, MySQL provides comprehensive administration features to easily fine tune parameters and optimize the database to meet particular application requirements.

Small Footprint

MySQL is a good fit for deeply embedded applications with a footprint of only 1MB. OEMs/ISVs can run a full-featured MySQL server inside an application increasing performance and simplifying the management of embedded applications. MySQL runs transparently to the end user, so your customers are unaware that a database is embedded within your application.

High-Performance

MySQL has always been recognized as a high-performance and efficient database, routinely posting top benchmark performance results for throughput and scalability. Powerful administration features ISVs to fine-tune the server to optimize performance for the particular details of an embedded or bundled application. Plus, a pluggable storage engine architecture enables you to mix and match storage engines for an efficient optimized footprint.

Reliability

Leading organizations, ISVs, and VARs consistently turn to MySQL for their most demanding applications because of MySQL's superior reliability and dependability. This stability is to a large degree the result of open source development. With a huge and active user community MySQL continuously receives extensive feedback which is incorporated into the product in a timely manner. In a recent code inspection study by Reasoning, inc. the leading provider of automated software inspection services concluded that the code quality of MySQL was six times better than that of comparable proprietary code.

Broad Platform Support

ISVs and OEMs need to provide a solution for all the platforms used by their target customers, whether they are educational institutions, healthcare facilities, IT departments or any other organization requiring a packaged application or hardware device. MySQL supports over 20 hardware and operating system platforms giving ISVs and OEMs the flexibility to ship their applications on Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Embedded Linux, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Novell Netware, Mac OS X, QNX, and more.

Standards-based

By choosing open source products and open standards, you protect yourself from getting locked into a single vendor's technology which often results in financial burdens down the road. And in the process, developers and DBAs benefit from a huge open source ecosystem. MySQL provides support for ANSI SQL standards including Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views and Subqueries, as well as ODBC, JDBC, .Net, C, C++, C#, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby drivers for developing applications with the most popular programming languages.

Flexible Licensing

OEMs, ISVs, and VARs who distribute MySQL with their products, and are not licensing and distributing their source code under the GPL, need to purchase a commercial license of MySQL. Licensing Terms can be tailored to meet the unique requirements of OEMs, ISVs and VARs interested in embedding or bundling MySQL.

Support, Training & Consulting Offerings

MySQL provides support and training from development to deployment through a variety of training, consulting and support offerings tailored to the needs of ISVs and OEMs. Whether you need help architecting your system, migrating from an existing solution, tuning performance or answering tough implementation questions, MySQL is there to help make you successful every step of the way.