In combination with the web server Apache and the scripting language PHP, MySQL offers data storage for web services. The server application is made available as a free software by the Apache Software Foundation. The initial X stands for the operating systems that it works with: Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
The software packet contains the web server Apache, the relational database management system MySQL (or MariaDB), and the scripting languages Perl and PHP. The name is an acronym, with each letter representing one of the five key components.
XAMPP is the title used for a compilation of free software.
