MySQL is the most trusted and depended-on open source database platform in use today. 9 out of the top 10 most popular and highly-trafficked websites in the world rely on MySQL primarily due to its ubiquity across heterogeneous platforms and application stacks and for its proven performance, reliability, and ease of use.
MySQL Enterprise Edition includes the most comprehensive set of advanced features, management tools and technical support to achieve the highest levels of MySQL scalability, security, reliability, and uptime. It reduces the risk, cost, and complexity in developing, deploying, and managing business-critical MySQL applications.
With MySQL 5.7, you can now seamlessly blend the best of the Relational and Document paradigms in a single tool, using whatever is best for each specific application and use case. This opens up a tremendous number of new use cases for MySQL users.
MySQL 5.7 builds on this momentum by delivering across the board improvements designed to enable innovative DBAs and Developers to create and deploy the next generation of web, embedded, and Cloud/SaaS/PaaS/DBaaS applications on the latest generation of development frameworks and hardware platforms.
Monitoring is important to our users and customers, and essential to any data management system. At the core of our monitoring strategy we have Performance Schema. The Performance Schema enhancements to MySQL 5.7 include numerous new monitoring capabilities, reduced footprint and overhead, and significantly improved ease of use with the new SYS Schema.
MySQL Security
AES 256 Encryption – MySQL supports multiple AES Encryption modes. We have enhanced the security strength of our Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption/decryption functions—AES_ENCRYPT() and AES_DECRYPT()—by adding support for larger key sizes and different block modes.
MySQL Enterprise Firewall – Blocks SQL Injection attacks that can result in loss of valuable personal and financial data. Whitelist creation, real-time threat monitoring, SQL statement blocking and
MySQL Enterprise Scalability – To meet the sustained performance and scalability of ever increasing users, query, and data loads–MySQL
Enterprise Edition provides the MySQL Thread Pool.MySQL Enterprise Authentication – MySQL Enterprise Edition provides ready to use external authentication modules so DBAs and developers can easily integrate MySQL with existing security infrastructures, including Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) and Windows Active Directory.
MySQL Enterprise Encryption – Provides encryption, key generation, digital signatures and other cryptographic features to help organizations protect confidential data and comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the PCI Data Security Standard.