Can I use MySQL Community Edition for commercial use?

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MySQL itself is open source and can be used as a standalone product in a commercial environment. If you're running mySQL on a web server, you are free to do so for any purpose, commercial or not. If you run a website that uses mySQL, you won't need to release any of your code. 11 нояб. 2011 г.

Is MySQL Community Edition free for commercial use?

1. it is free of charge to use MySQL Community Edition in my in-house commercial usage, regardless how I use MySQL as database to store data; 2. it is free of charge to allow me to recruit a company to develop applications by any programming language and take MySQL Community Edition as database.

Can I use MySQL Community Edition in production?

The short answer: Yes it is safe for production use and nearly everyone uses the community version.

What are the limitations of MySQL Community Edition?

You can only have 4096 columns in a single table, though it could end up being less. In addition, there's a row size limit of 65,535 bytes. MySQL imposes restrictions: Even if your storage engine supports larger rows and columns, MySQL will not allow you to create any over the limit.

Is MySQL community open source?

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.

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