MySQL

4/5

AWS offers Amazon RDS for MySQL (managed) and Amazon Aurora MySQL-compatible Edition (high-performance); MySQL on AWS is one of the most common database choices for web applications in the AWS ecosystem.

Hostinger

Affordable web hosting with shared, cloud, and agency plans plus KVM VPS, on LiteSpeed servers with NVMe storage and the beginner-friendly hPanel control panel.

Paid

4/5

Hostinger provides managed MySQL databases bundled with shared and VPS plans, pre-configured for WordPress and PHP apps through the hPanel control panel.

Hetzner

German cloud and dedicated server provider offering VPS, bare-metal servers, and storage at prices far below the big clouds, with data centers in the EU, the US, and Singapore.

Paid

3/5

MySQL is commonly self-hosted on Hetzner VPS instances as part of LAMP stacks or containerised application deployments; Hetzner's cost-efficient dedicated and cloud servers make it a popular European hosting target for MySQL.

Google Cloud Platform

Google's cloud platform with strong data, analytics, AI, and Kubernetes capabilities. The third-largest cloud provider, after AWS and Azure.

Usage Based

3/5

Google Cloud SQL for MySQL is a fully managed MySQL service on GCP, supporting MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 with automated backups and replication; it is a straightforward path for running MySQL workloads on Google Cloud.

Integrates with MySQL(7)

PHP

PHP is a server-side scripting language built for web development and used by most websites with a known server-side language, including WordPress and Wikipedia, with modern frameworks like Laravel and Symfony.

Programming Languages

5/5

MySQL and PHP are co-designed components of the LAMP stack; PHP's mysqli extension and PDO_MySQL driver were developed alongside MySQL, making them the canonical pairing for server-side web development.

Drizzle

A lightweight, SQL-first TypeScript ORM. You write queries that read like SQL, with full type inference and zero runtime dependencies.

5/5

Drizzle supports MySQL with a dedicated driver and a type-safe query builder.

Prisma ORM

The most widely used TypeScript ORM for Node.js. Schema-first modelling, auto-generated migrations, and a fully type-safe query client.

5/5

Prisma supports MySQL out of the box with schema modelling, migrations, and a type-safe query client.

TypeORM

TypeORM is a TypeScript/JavaScript ORM supporting both Active Record and Data Mapper patterns across the widest range of databases of any major JS ORM.

4/5

TypeORM supports MySQL through the mysql2 driver, with migrations and both Active Record and Data Mapper entities.

WordPress

The most widely used CMS, running about 40% of all websites. Open-source PHP platform with a block editor, themes, and a plugin ecosystem, self-hosted or managed on WordPress.com.

CMS

5/5

MySQL powers the overwhelming majority of WordPress installations; the WordPress database schema, wpdb class, and plugin ecosystem are all built around MySQL's query syntax and behaviour.

Directus

Directus is a flexible headless CMS and backend platform that instantly wraps any SQL database with REST and GraphQL APIs and a no-code admin UI.

Freemium

CMS

4/5

Directus supports MySQL as its database, introspecting existing tables into its REST and GraphQL APIs and admin app.

Alternatives to MySQL(5)

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is a free, open-source object-relational database known for reliability, standards compliance, and extensibility, with rich data types, JSONB, and a large ecosystem of extensions such as PostGIS and pgvector.

5/5

Both are full-featured open-source relational SQL databases with ACID compliance and broad language support; PostgreSQL offers richer SQL features and a powerful extension system while MySQL prioritises simplicity and read performance in traditional web stacks.

MariaDB

MariaDB is an open-source relational database forked from MySQL by its original creators, offering a fully GPL-licensed community server with an improved query optimizer, additional storage engines, and Galera Cluster for synchronous multi-master replication.

5/5

MariaDB was forked from MySQL by its original developers in 2009 and remains a drop-in replacement; both share the same SQL dialect and connector ecosystem but diverge in licensing model, query optimizer, and storage engine lineup.

PlanetScale

A serverless database platform built on Vitess, the technology that scales MySQL at YouTube. Known for horizontal scaling and a branch-and-deploy schema workflow.

Paid

4/5

Plain MySQL is free to run on any server; PlanetScale hosts MySQL on Vitess with horizontal sharding, deploy requests, and online schema changes, on paid plans only.

SQLite

SQLite is a self-contained, serverless SQL database engine that stores the entire database as a single file on disk. It is the most widely deployed database in the world, used in every smartphone and countless applications.

3/5

Both are relational SQL databases but serve very different deployment contexts; MySQL runs as a dedicated server for multi-client workloads while SQLite is embedded and file-based, suited for single-process or local applications.

MongoDB

MongoDB is a leading NoSQL document database that stores data as flexible JSON-like documents, available self-hosted or as the managed Atlas cloud service, and popular for web, mobile, and real-time apps.

Freemium