MySQL what is the maximum size of a database?

Question

I have looked all over the MySQL website and found no definitive answers.

1. Is the size of the database determined by the operating system or is there 4GB limit

Answer 1

With today's hardware and OS, together with MySQL's preferred Engine InnoDB, the table size limitation is 64TB. With PARTITIONing, that can be stretched to over a hundred petabytes.

A database is a collection of tables. So, to answer the title question literally, we need to go beyond the max table size. Since there can be thousands of tables in a database, we are now into the exabyte stratosphere.

See also Hard limits in MySQL .