MSQL

mSQL or Mini SQL is a lightweight client/server database from Hughes Technologies. Originally developed in 1994, mSQL filled a vacuum that existed between the embedded desktop databases like Microsoft Access and the enterprise-level commercial databases such as Oracle and DB2. Between 1994 and 1997, it grew in popularity and became the primary database of choice for open source software developersfact|date=October 2008.

mSQL itself was not an open source technology. By 1996, development on mSQL began to stagnate and MySQL arose to fill that void. By 1999, MySQL had gone well beyond mSQL in popularity and today mSQL has less visibility. The database was in active development as of 2006, with version 3.8 released on June 9, 2006.

Host languages

mSQL site originally supported several host languages:
* C, included with the software
* Perl
* Java via mSQL-JDBC
* Delphi
* Tcl/Tk

Although the included C API is fairly straightforward to use it can be unreliable for simple things like getting the number of rows in a tablefact|date=October 2008.This is true also of the included msqlexport command line utility, which often silently truncates outputfact|date=October 2008.

ee also

* mSQL-JDBC (aka Soul) JDBC driver for mSQL
* List of relational database management systems
* Comparison of relational database management systems

External links

* [http://www.hughes.com.au Hughes Technologies]