awesome-mysql

A curated list of awesome MySQL free and opensource software, libraries and resources.

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Contents

• Awesome MySQL

  • Analysis
  • Backup
  • Benchmarking
  • Binlog Replication
  • ChatOps
  • Configuration
  • Connectors
  • Deployment
  • Development
  • GUI
  • HA
  • MCP
  • Proxy
  • Replication
  • Schema
  • Security
  • Server
  • Sharding
  • Toolkits

• Resources

  • E-Books

Analysis

Performance, structure & data analysis tools

• Anemometer - Box SQL slow query monitor.
• innodb-ruby - A parser for InnoDB file formats, in Ruby.
• innotop - a 'top' clone for MySQL with many features and flexibility.
• MySQL Explain Analyzer - A web-based analyzer of EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON output, providing comments, scalability analysis and permalinks for saved samples.
• mysql-statsd - A Python daemon to collect information from MySQL and send it via StatsD to Graphite.
• MySQLTuner-perl - A script that allows you to review a MySQL installation quickly and make adjustments to increase performance and stability.
• Prometheus/mysqld_exporter - Time series database for real-time monitoring and alerting.
• pstop - a top-like program for MySQL, collecting, aggregating and displaying information from performance_schema.
• ReliaDB EXPLAIN Analyzer - a browser-based MySQL and MariaDB EXPLAIN visualizer with issue detection, index recommendations, and query rewrites. 100% client-side.
• Wireshark - a protocol analyzer that can decode the MySQL protocol.
• Dolphie - a modern terminal tool for real-time analytics into MySQL/MariaDB & ProxySQL
• sql-tap - Real-time SQL traffic viewer.

Backup

Backup/restore/recovery tools

• Databasus - tool for scheduled MySQL backups via web UI with external storages (local, S3, FTP, Google Drive, etc.), notifications (webhook, Discord, Slack, etc.) and team management.
• Dumpling - Logical, parallel backup/dumper tool for MySQL/TiDB written in GoLang - support csv format output and integrated as library
• MyDumper - Logical, parallel backup/dumper tool for MySQL
• Percona Xtrabackup - an open-source hot backup utility for MySQL - based servers that doesn’t lock your database during the backup.
• Portabase - Agent-based platform for MySQL backups and restores with decentralized execution and centralized orchestration.

Benchmarking

Tools to stress your servers

• HammerDB - An open-source database benchmark for MySQL/MariaDB and other open source and commercial databases.
• go-tpc - A golang port of TPCC and TPCH benchmark for MySQL.
• iibench-mysql - Java based version of the Index Insertion Benchmark for MySQL/Percona/MariaDB.
• Sysbench - a modular, cross-platform and multi-threaded benchmark tool.
• TPCC-MySQL (archived) - A port of the popular TPCC benchmark for MySQL.

Binlog-Replication

• DM - A High-Availability data migration platform which supports migrating data from MySQL/MariaDB to TiDB and merging shard tables
• Kingbus - A distributed MySQL binlog storage system built on Raft
• mysql-ripple (archived) - Ripple, a server that can serve as a middleman in MySQL replication

ChatOps

Scripts integrated into chat rooms

• Hubot MySQL ChatOps

Configuration

MySQL sample configuration and advisors

• mysql-compatibility-config - make MySQL configuration behave more like newer (or older) releases of MySQL.

Connectors

MySQL connectors for various programming languages

• ballerinax/mysql - Official Ballerina connector for MySQL.
• DBD::MariaDB - MariaDB and MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface.
• DBD::mysql - MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface.
• go-sql-driver - a lightweight and fast MySQL-Driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package.
• libAttachSQL - libAttachSQL is a lightweight, non-blocking C API for MySQL servers.
• MariaDB Connector/J - LGPL-licensed MariaDB Client Library for Java Applications.
• mex-mariadb - MIT licensed MariaDB/MySQL Client Library for GNU Octave and Matlab.
• MySQL C API - Official C driver for MySQL.
• MySQL Connector/C++ - Official C/C++ driver for MySQL.
• MySQL Connector/J - a standardized database driver for the Java platforms and development.
• MySQL Connector/NET - a standardized database driver for .Net platforms and development.
• MySQL Connector/Node.js - Official Node.js driver for MySQL.
• MySQL Connector/Python - a standardized database driver for Python platforms and development.
• mysqlclient-python - MySQL database connector for Python.
• node-mysql - A pure Nodejs Javascript client implementing the MySQL protocol.
• PHP mysqlnd - MySQL native driver for PHP.
• PyMySQL - MySQL database connector for Python.
• Ruby Mysql2 gem - MySQL driver for Ruby and Rails projects.
• MyZql - MySQL and MariaDB driver in native Zig.
• wtx - Client for MySQL/MariaDB/Percona written in Rust

Deployment

MySQL deployment tools

• MariaDB4j - A Java launcher to run MariaDB without installation or external dependencies.

Development

Tools to support MySQL-related development

• Flywaydb - Database migrations; Evolve your database schema easily and reliably across all your instances
• dbsafe - Pre-execution safety analysis for MySQL DDL/DML operations
• Liquibase - Source control for your database
• Shift - An application that helps you run schema migrations on MySQL databases
• Skeema - Declarative pure-SQL schema management system for MySQL and MariaDB, with support for sharding and external online schema change tools
• SQLE - SQLE is a SQL audit platform for DBA or developer
• Test database - A sample MySQL database with an integrated test suite, used to test applications and servers
• cover_me - code coverage tool for mysql stored procedures and functions

GUI

GUI frontends & applications

• Adminer - Database management in a single PHP file.
• DBeaver - A cross-platform SQL and NoSQL database client.
• HeidiSQL - MySQL GUI frontend for Windows.
• ILLA Cloud - Low-code internal tool builder integrated with Mysql, can be used as GUI for Mysql.
• mycli - A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
• MySQL Shell - Advanced client and code editor for MySQL that supports development and administration for the MySQL Server and MySQL InnoDB cluster (AdminAPI) with an interactive JavaScript, Python, or SQL interface.
• MySQL Workbench - provides DBAs and developers an integrated tools environment for database design & modeling; SQL devleopment; database administration.
• Ocelot GUI - GUI client for MySQL or MariaDB, including debugger.
• OmniDB: Web tool for database management
• Percona Monitoring and Management - An open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL performance.
• phpMyAdmin - a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web.
• pspg - provides a pager with enhanced visualization and navigation for tabular data. Originally implemented for PostgreSQL, but also supports MySQL.
• Sequel Ace - a Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.
• TablePro - Native macOS client for MySQL and many other databases with inline editing, SSH tunneling, and AI assistant. Free and open-source.
• SQLyog Community edition - SQLyog Community edition. For Windows, works fine under wine in Mac and Linux
• squix - SQL command-line client with query management and interactive results.
• WebDB – Open Source and Efficient Database IDE. Featuring Easy server connection, Modern ERD, Intelligent data generator, AI assistant, NoSQL structure manager, Time machine and Powerful query editor

HA

High availability solutions

• Galera Cluster - a true Multimaster Cluster based on synchronous replication.
• mha4mysql-node and mha4mysql-manager (both unmaintained) - Master High Availability Manager and tools for MySQL.
• Orchestrator (archived) - MySQL replication topology management and High Availability solution.
• Percona Replication Manager - Asynchronous MySQL replication manager agent for Pacemaker. Supports file and GTID based replication, geo-distributed clusters using booth.
• replication-manager - a high availability solution to manage MariaDB 10.x and MySQL & Percona Server 5.7 GTID replication topologies.

MCP

• MCP MariaDB Server - the official MariaDB MCP server.
• MySQL MCP Server - Advanced MCP server exposing MySQL via the Model Context Protocol
• TiDB MCP Server - MCP Server for TiDB.

Proxy

Proxies to MySQL

• MySQL Router - MySQL Router is part of InnoDB cluster, and is a lightweight middleware that provides transparent routing between your application and back-end MySQL Servers.
• ProxySQL - High performance proxy for MySQL.

Replication

Replication related software

• data-diff (archived) - Command-line tool and Python library to efficiently diff rows across two different databases.

Schema

Add-on schemas

• common_schema - DBA's framework for MySQL, providing a function library, views library and QueryScript interpreter.
• sys (archived) - A collection of views, functions and procedures to help MySQL administrators get insight in to MySQL Database usage. See sys schema docs

Security

Tools that prevents leaking of sensitive data from database (encryption, masking and tokenization, honey-pots, etc)

• Acra - SQL database protection suite: strong selective encryption, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection system.
• myanon - Streaming anonymizer for MySQL dump files, reading mysqldump output from stdin and writing anonymized data to stdout. Supports deterministic hashing, fixed values, JSON field anonymization, and Python extensions.
• myldapsync - Synchronize MySQL or MariaDB users with users in an LDAP directory.

Server

MySQL server flavors

• MariaDB - Community developed fork of MySQL server.
• MySQL Server & MySQL Cluster - Official Oracle's MySQL server & MySQL Cluster distribution.
• MyVector - Native vector search plugin for MySQL, shipped as a server plugin.
• Percona Server - An enhanced, drop-in MySQL replacement.
• TiDB - A distributed HTAP database compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Sharding

Sharding solutions/frameworks

• Jetpants - An automation suite for managing large range sharding clusters, by Tumblr.
• Vitess - vitess provides servers and tools which facilitate scaling of MySQL databases for large scale web services.

Toolkits

Toolkits, general purpose scripts

• gh-ost - GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL.
• go-mysql - A pure go library to handle MySQL network protocol and replication.
• MySQL Utilities (deprecated) - a collection of command-line utilities, written in Python, that are used for maintaining and administering MySQL servers, either individually, or within Replication hierarchies.
• Percona Toolkit - a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually.
• sql-splitter - High-performance CLI for splitting, merging, converting, validating, and sampling mysqldump files.
• Swoof - Ultra fast MySQL table importer that stages swaps through temporary tables and supports file/clipboard targets.
• UnDROP (archived) - a tool to recover data from dropped or corrupted InnoDB tables.

Resources

At this stage "resources" will not include websites, blogs, slides, presentation videos, etc. in fear of list size

e-books

e-books as well as relevant materials on and around MySQL

• Database Systems Lecture Notes - lecture notes on Database Systems (available in pdf, html, odt and markdown) including a Chapter on SQL that covers basic set-up, exercises and problems.
• SQL-exercise - contains several SQL exercises, including the schema description figure, SQL code to build schema, questions and solutions in SQL. Based on wikibook SQL Exercises.

Incubating

Projects that are known to be non-production and yet have either traction or substance that warrants exposure.

• VillageSQL - A drop-in replacement for MySQL with extensions for the agentic AI era.