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ClusterControl
Agentless database-cluster management software from Severalnines that deploys, monitors, manages, and scales MySQL, MariaDB, and Galera clusters from a single UI, with a free Community edition and paid Advanced/Enterprise tiers.
MySQL Connector/J
Oracle's official JDBC driver for MySQL, implementing both the standard JDBC API and the MySQL X DevAPI for Java client applications.
MySQL Connector/Python
Oracle's official MySQL driver for Python — implements the MySQL client/server protocol in pure Python, with an optional C extension for speed, supporting both the classic DB API v2.0 (PEP 249) interface and the X DevAPI for the Document Store.
MySQL Course by Kedar Vaijanapurkar
A free MySQL video course on YouTube covering fundamentals, queries, and database administration — suitable for beginners and intermediate users.
MySQL for Developers by PlanetScale
A free, practical video course on MySQL for application developers — covering schema design, queries, and indexing.
MySQL History Graph
A visual graph of MySQL's version history and its major forks — Percona Server, MariaDB, Drizzle, InfiniDB, TiDB, and more — generated with GraphViz.
MySQL NDB Cluster
Oracle's official shared-nothing, in-memory distributed storage engine and clustering technology for MySQL — built for very high availability and horizontal scaling, with no single point of failure.
MySQL Operator for Kubernetes
Oracle's official Kubernetes operator for MySQL — automates deploying and managing MySQL InnoDB Cluster, InnoDB ReplicaSet, and InnoDB ClusterSet topologies, including upgrades and backups.
MySQL Reference Manual
Oracle's official, continuously updated documentation for MySQL Server — installation, SQL syntax, the InnoDB storage engine, replication, security, and every configuration option, covering all currently maintained MySQL versions.
MySQL Router
Oracle's official lightweight routing proxy for MySQL — sits between applications and a MySQL InnoDB Cluster, ReplicaSet, or ClusterSet, directing each connection to the right backend server so client applications don't need to track cluster topology themselves.
MySQL Shell
Oracle's official advanced command-line client for MySQL — SQL, JavaScript, and Python modes in one shell, plus an AdminAPI for provisioning and managing InnoDB Cluster, ReplicaSet, and ClusterSet deployments.
Percona Database Performance Blog
Percona's company blog — practical, technical articles on MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB performance, tuning, troubleshooting, and operations, written mainly by Percona's own engineers.
Readyset
A transparent, MySQL- and Postgres-compatible SQL caching layer that sits in front of your database and keeps cached query results up to date from the replication stream.
TiDB Documentation
PingCAP's official documentation for TiDB — installation and cluster administration, the SQL reference, the MySQL-protocol compatibility notes, data migration from MySQL, and performance tuning, maintained across dev and stable release lines.