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As part of the contest we conducted recently, I got many comments from the TechProceed.com readers who choose their favorite database. Based on this data, the top spot goes to..  MySQL If you are new to any of the top 5 database mentioned here, please read the rest of the article to understand more about them. 1. MySQL MySQL is used in almost all the open source web projects that require a database in the back-end. MySQL is part of the powerful LAMP stack along with Linux, Apache and PHP. This was originally created by a company called MySQL AB, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems, which was acquired by Oracle. Since we don’t what Oracle will do with MySQL database, open source community has created several forks of MySQL including Drizzle and MariaDB. Following are few key features: Written in C and C++. MyISAM storage uses b-tree disk tables with index compression for high performance. Support for partitioning and replication....