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MySQL (officially pronounced as "My S-Q-L") is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).

Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius' daughter, and "SQL", the abbreviation for Structured Query Language.

The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements.

MySQL was owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now owned by Oracle Corporation.

For proprietary use, several paid editions are available, and offer additional functionality.

Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation, headquartered in Redwood Shores, California.

The company specializes primarily in developing and marketing database software and technology, cloud engineered systems and enterprise software products — particularly its own brands of database management systems.

In 2015 Oracle was the second-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft.

Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of these data.

This process becomes significant in a variety of situations, which include both commercial (when two similar companies need to merge their databases) and scientific (combining research results from different bioinformatics repositories, for example) domains.

Data integration appears with increasing frequency as the volume and the need to share existing data explodes.

It has become the focus of extensive theoretical work, and numerous open problems remain unsolved.

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft.

As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications—which may run either on the same computer or on another computer across a network (including the Internet).

A database is an organized collection of data.

It is the collection of schemas, tables, queries, reports, views, and other objects.