How big is too big for a MySQL database?

Is MySQL good for large database?

Yes, You can create large-scale applications using PHP and MySQL. You need to use some other helper tools as well, which will help scaling your app, for example load balancers.

Can MySQL handle 1 million records?

Millions of rows is fine, tens of millions of rows is fine - provided you've got an even remotely decent server, i.e. a few Gbs of RAM, plenty disk space. You will need to learn about indexes for fast retrieval, but in terms of MySQL being able to handle it, no problem.

Can MySQL handle billions of records?

Yes, MySQL can handle 10 billion rows. When you define ids on the largest tables, use a bigint . Of course, whether performance is good or not depends on your queries.

What is the limitation of MySQL?

A table cannot contain more than 1000 columns. The internal maximum key length is 3500 bytes, but MySQL itself restricts this to 1024 bytes. The maximum row length, except for VARCHAR , BLOB and TEXT columns, is slightly less than half of a database page. That is, the maximum row length is about 8000 bytes.