What is Free MySQL Database Hosting?

Free MySQL Database Hosting is a free web hosting service that supports MySQL, an open source software relational database management system, which relies on SQL, a query language for requesting information from a database, for processing data in a given database. MySQL is most commonly used for web applications and for embedded applications, and has become a major alternative to proprietary database systems because of its speed and reliability. MySQL provides APIs for the languages C, C++, Java, Perl and PHP, among others. While current versions of MySQL are optimized for use on Unix platforms, it can be built to work on most modern platforms by compiling the source code.