Does MYSQL Support Object Oriented Database?

Question

Does MYSQL support Object Oriented Database or just Relational Databases?

Answer 1

Unfortunately not, as far as i know MySQL doesn't have any way of storing Objects in a nice way except for blobs , which aren't really nice in my honest opinion :)

Answer 2

MySQL is a relational database rather than an object oriented database.

You can use a database such as MySQL in an object oriented manner from your code using an ORM (Object Relational Mapping) library. A good example of this is Doctrine for PHP. http://www.doctrine-project.org/

Object Oriented databases aren't really in fashion at the moment. Relational Databases are by far the most popular with NoSQL also making some waves.

If you are determined to use an OODB Wikipedia has a list of Object oriented databases you may want to look into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_object_database_management_systems