title: MySQL Enterprise
text: # MySQL Enterprise
  
  MySQL Enterprise is a subscription-based service produced by Oracle Corporation and targeted toward the commercial market. Oracle's official support, training and certification focus on MySQL Enterprise.
  
  MySQL Enterprise contains
  
  * MySQL Enterprise Server software, a distribution of the MySQL Server
  * MySQL Enterprise Monitor
  * MySQL Enterprise Backup
  * MySQL Enterprise Audit
  * MySQL Enterprise Firewall
  * MySQL Workbench Standard Edition
  * Production Support
  
  New versions of MySQL Enterprise Server are released monthly as Rapid Updates (MRUs), and quarterly as Service Packs (QSPs).
  
  ## Relationship to free or community versions
  
  MySQL Enterprise Edition was created by MySQL AB as a commercial product, available for purchase as a subscription. It has been continued by Sun, and Oracle.
  
  