by
Zaid Rabab'a , Software Development Team Leader , Al-Safa Co. Ltd.
This answer in my point of view so please do not judge
MySQL is the best database engine why ??
1- Used in almost all the open source web
2- Is part of the powerful LAMP stack along with Linux, Apache and PHP.
3- Written in C whitch will effect performance
4- MyISAM storage uses b-tree disk tables with index compression for high performance.
5- Support for partitioning and replication.
6- Support for Xpath, full text search.
7- Support for stored procedures, triggers, views etc.,
and also there is a good database engines you can use like :
PostgreSQL
Oracle
SQLite
Microsoft SQL Server
