
In this tutorial, you will install the latest version of MySQL by adding this repository, install the MySQL software itself, secure the install, and test that MySQL is running and responding to commands. While MariaDB works well in most cases, if you need features found only in Oracle’s MySQL, you can install and use packages from a repository maintained by the MySQL developers.

In Debian 10, MariaDB, a community fork of the MySQL project, is packaged as the default MySQL variant. MySQL is the M in the LAMP stack, a commonly used set of open source software that also includes Linux, the Apache web server, and the PHP programming language.


MySQL is a prominent open-source database management system used to store and retrieve data for a wide variety of popular applications.
