Database Development

Develop a database to store horse racing past performances and results data, and a means to read large amounts of information that is in a csv format into the database. I can provide samples of the data and format. The data should be referencable by each race as an event? and by each horse. When a new race result is loaded, the database needs to be able to update the records on the horses in that race. I program in c++ so will need access to the database from within c++. I'm beginning to learn mySQL, so that would be my first choice for a platform, but if something else does it better, that's fine.