This question originated from "Uncle Philip" (Uncle Philip is our MySQL regional sales. This person is handsome, charming, suave, humorous, humorous, and interesting... I can’t go anymore, I’m going to spit out the meal.) Yesterday at noon, just as I was enjoying a happy lunch time, a phone call interrupted my leisure time. “The customer asked me a question, and Mr. Xu answered it.” After answering Philip, I I am also worried that "Uncle" is getting older and has a bad memory. I often forget what I said, so I still write it down in case he will not admit it when he calls me again in the future.
In fact, I often encounter this problem in my daily work. This problem usually comes from the customer's system administrator or purchaser. There are basically two reasons:
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There is no concept of database products at all, and the requirements for hardware are not clear.
- Not familiar with MySQL database, compare with previous commercial databases.
Write this text to answer this question, for the reference of people who are not familiar with MySQL database.
Does MySQL have minimum hardware requirements? Going through the contents of the entire manual, you can't find relevant information, except for MySQL NDB Cluster, but NDB is completely different from the MySQL that everyone usually thinks, so you can understand that MySQL has no minimum requirements for server hardware. Someone will immediately ask: "How is it possible? There is a minimum requirement for installing a software on the PC." Don't worry, look down. MySQL provides a list of supported operating systems on its official website: " https://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/database.html", which describes the operating systems that Oracle has verified to run MySQL normally .
This list is equivalent to providing a minimum hardware requirement from the side. As long as your server can be installed and used normally with the supported operating system, MySQL can run on the server. In other words, MySQL has very low hardware requirements and does not require high-level hardware support. This is one of the fundamental reasons why MySQL has become popular.
Database products are different from other application products. As the database becomes more and more busy, any database application will eventually reach the hardware limit. Therefore, when initially configuring the hardware for the database, you need to consider the type of application and the growth of the data volume, plan for a period of time in the future, and balance performance and cost.