On macOS, you can install MySQL easily using Homebrew.
brew install mysql
You can now start the MySQL server by running:
brew services start mysql
brew services stop mysql
Now we need to secure the MySQL server. By default the server comes without a root password, so we need to make sure it’s protected.
mysql_secure_installation
You can also avoid this daemon mode (that’s what we call programs that always run in the background and restart when the computer is restarted) by running:
mysql.server start
mysql.server stop
Now you can connect to the server using the command:
mysql -u root -p
A great GUI (graphical) software we can use to interact with a SQLite database is TablePlus.