Software & Tools
Open-source and commercial MySQL-compatible database engines, proxies, and tools.
Adminer
A full-featured database management tool distributed as a single PHP file — drop it onto any server and get a browser-based UI for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL, and more.
AliSQL
Alibaba Cloud's open-source MySQL branch, protocol-compatible with MySQL 8.0 and extended with a DuckDB-backed analytical storage engine, native vector search, and flashback queries.
Apache Doris
An open source, real-time analytics and search database built on MPP architecture, speaking the MySQL wire protocol for fast SQL analytics, lakehouse query acceleration, and hybrid search.
Apache ShardingSphere
A distributed SQL ecosystem that adds data sharding, read/write splitting, encryption, and other enterprise capabilities on top of MySQL and other databases, deployable as an enhanced JDBC driver or as a standalone proxy.
Atlas
A schema-as-code tool for inspecting, diffing, and migrating database schemas — MySQL, MariaDB, and TiDB included — with a declarative, Terraform-style planning workflow.
Beekeeper Studio
A cross-platform SQL editor and database manager for Linux, macOS, and Windows, with full support for browsing, querying, and editing MySQL and MariaDB databases alongside dozens of other engines.
binlogsum
A summarizer for decoded MySQL and MariaDB binary logs — turns mysqlbinlog output into per-table write statistics, GTID/transaction ranges, and writes-over-time histograms for diagnosing replication delay and unusual write activity.
Bytebase
A database change-management platform with a GUI/GitOps workflow for reviewing, approving, and rolling out schema migrations, plus SQL linting and access control.
Canal
Alibaba's MySQL binlog subscribe-and-consume component — it disguises itself as a MySQL replica to pull and parse binlog events for real-time data sync, cache invalidation, and search-index updates.
Chat2DB
A free, cross-platform database client and SQL workspace with a bring-your-own-model AI assistant for writing, explaining, and optimizing SQL, with MySQL as its first-listed supported database.
DBCanvas
A visual canvas for designing a database topology and deploying it as real, disposable Docker nodes — with DNS, TLS, LDAP, replication, monitoring, and backups wired in — for testing, demos, training, and troubleshooting.
dbdeployer
Deploys single, replicated, or Galera MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server sandboxes locally in seconds, for development and testing — no root access or Docker required.
DBeaver Community Edition
A free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database management tool with JDBC-based support for MySQL, MariaDB, and dozens of other databases.
DbGate
A cross-platform (no)SQL database manager for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, and more, available as a desktop app, Docker image, or web application, with schema compare, a visual query designer, and data import/export.
DBTrail
A zero-ETL analytical replica for MySQL — it reads the binlog like a replica, keeps a Parquet copy you query with DuckDB, and adds time travel and row-level undo.
Debezium
An open source distributed platform for change data capture that streams row-level changes out of MySQL's binary log — and MariaDB, Vitess, and TiDB — into Kafka and other event streams.
Diesel
A safe, extensible Rust ORM and query builder with compile-time query verification and a dedicated MySQL/MariaDB backend, alongside PostgreSQL and SQLite.
Dolphie
A terminal "single pane of glass" for real-time analytics into MySQL, MariaDB, and ProxySQL — with graphs, a live processlist, and session record and replay.
Dolt
A SQL database that can be branched, merged, cloned, and pushed like a Git repository — `dolt sql-server` speaks the MySQL wire protocol, so existing MySQL clients and drivers connect to it directly.
Flink CDC
A streaming data integration tool built on Apache Flink, with MySQL, TiDB, and Vitess binlog source connectors for full-database sync, schema evolution, and data transformation into warehouses and lakehouses.
Flyway
Version-controlled database migrations — Flyway applies versioned, repeatable SQL or Java scripts and tracks what's been applied in a metadata table, so every environment's schema stays in sync.
Galera Cluster
A synchronous multi-master replication library for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona Server — every node accepts reads and writes, with no replication lag and no lost transactions on failover.
gcache-inspector
An offline reader for Galera's write-set cache (GCache) files on Percona XtraDB Cluster and MariaDB Galera Cluster, summarizing per-table activity and decoding write-sets into row-level output without a database connection.
gh-ost
A triggerless online schema migration tool for MySQL, built by GitHub, that produces a lightweight replication-based workload instead of relying on triggers.
go-mysql
A pure Go library for the MySQL network protocol and replication stream, used to build binlog consumers, MySQL-compatible proxies, and sync tools like canal.
Go-MySQL-Driver
A pure Go implementation of the MySQL client protocol for Go's database/sql package — no C bindings, no libmysqlclient dependency.
go-mysql-server
A pure Go, MySQL wire-protocol-compatible SQL query engine that lets any Go program expose its own data as a MySQL server — the engine underneath DoltHub's Dolt.
golang-migrate
A Go database-migration tool and library — run versioned migrations from the CLI or embed them directly in a Go application, with drivers for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and over twenty other databases.
goose
A Go database migration tool — manage schema changes as ordered SQL scripts or Go functions, run from the command line or embedded directly in a Go application as a library.
GreatSQL
A MySQL branch built on top of Percona Server for MySQL, adding high-availability, parallel-query, and security features aimed at financial-grade workloads.
HammerDB
An open-source database load-testing tool that runs industry-standard TPC-C and TPC-H style benchmarks against MySQL and MariaDB, with a GUI, CLI, and CI-friendly automation.
HeidiSQL
A free, open-source desktop client for browsing and administering MySQL and MariaDB databases, with additional support for MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
ibdNinja
A powerful C++ tool for parsing and analyzing MySQL (.ibd) data files.
innodump
An offline reader for InnoDB tablespace files (.ibd, ibdata1) across MySQL 5.6–8.4 and MariaDB — reconstructs CREATE TABLE statements and extracts row data via direct B+tree traversal, without a running database server.
innotop
A real-time, terminal-based "top" for MySQL — live views of queries, InnoDB transactions and locks, replication, and server status, across one server or many.
Liquibase
An open-core database schema change management tool that tracks, versions, and automates schema deployments and rollbacks, with built-in support for MySQL and MariaDB.
MariaDB ColumnStore
MariaDB's columnar storage engine for analytical workloads — plugs into MariaDB Server to run large aggregations and scans over massively parallel, distributed storage instead of the row-oriented InnoDB/Aria engines.
MariaDB Connector/C
MariaDB Corporation's official C client library for connecting C/C++ applications to MariaDB and MySQL servers — the native driver underneath many higher-level MariaDB and third-party language connectors.
MariaDB MaxScale
An intelligent database proxy that sits in front of MariaDB and MySQL servers, routing SQL traffic with read/write split, automatic failover, and cluster-aware load balancing.
MariaDB Server
An open-source relational database forked from MySQL by its original developers, maintained by the MariaDB Foundation and MariaDB plc, with MySQL wire-protocol compatibility, pluggable storage engines, and built-in Galera clustering.
Maxwell's Daemon
A change data capture application that reads MySQL's binary log and writes each row-level change as JSON to Kafka, Kinesis, or other streaming platforms.
MOCO
A Kubernetes operator that manages MySQL clusters using GTID-based, loss-less semi-synchronous replication — deployment, automatic failover, backups, and point-in-time recovery, without group replication.
MyDumper
A high-performance MySQL backup and restore tool — mydumper for parallel exporting, myloader for fast importing, designed for consistent logical backups.
MyEnv
MyEnv is an environment to run and operate several different MySQL instances simultaneously on the SAME machine.
myflames
A MySQL and MariaDB query-plan visualizer that turns EXPLAIN ANALYZE output into interactive flame graphs, treemaps, and Visual Explain diagrams, with a local workspace and before/after comparison.
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 MCP Server
A read-only MySQL server implementation for the Model Context Protocol — exposes safe MySQL introspection and query execution to Claude Desktop and other MCP clients.
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 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.
MySQL Workbench
Oracle's official graphical tool for MySQL — SQL development, visual data modeling with forward/reverse engineering, server administration, and migration from other RDBMS engines.
mysql_random_data_load
A command-line tool from Percona Lab that reads a MySQL table's structure and fills it with random rows — for reproducing bugs, seeding test environments, and generating data to benchmark against.
mysql2
A fast, pure-JavaScript MySQL client for Node.js, built as a near-drop-in replacement for the original `mysql` package with a rewritten wire-protocol parser and support for prepared statements, compression, and the binary log protocol.
mysqldef (sqldef)
An idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, MariaDB, and TiDB — describe the desired schema as plain SQL and sqldef diffs it against the live database, generating and applying only the DDL needed to converge.
MySQLTuner
A Perl script that reviews a live MySQL, MariaDB, or Percona Server installation and produces a weighted health score plus concrete configuration recommendations for performance, security, and resilience.
MyVector
A native vector search plugin for MySQL enabling similarity search and semantic operations directly within MySQL, using HNSW-based approximate nearest neighbour search.
OceanBase
A distributed relational database from Ant Group with a MySQL-compatible mode, built for HTAP workloads at petabyte scale with no single point of failure.
OpenEverest
An open source cloud-native database platform for deploying and managing MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB on Kubernetes.
orchestrator
A MySQL replication topology discovery, visualization, and failure-detection tool with a CLI, HTTP API, and web UI, maintained by Percona as a continuation of the original openark/orchestrator project.
Percona Monitoring and Management
A single pane of glass for monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL performance, with Grafana dashboards, query analytics, and alerting.
Percona Operator for MySQL
A Kubernetes operator built on Percona Server for MySQL — automates deploying, scaling, and managing highly available MySQL clusters with group replication or asynchronous replication.
Percona Server for MySQL
A drop-in replacement for MySQL with enhanced performance, observability, and security features.
Percona Toolkit
A collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and supported by Percona, for MySQL tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually.
Percona XtraBackup
An open-source hot backup utility for MySQL and Percona Server that takes physical backups of InnoDB, XtraDB, and MyISAM tables without locking the database.
Percona XtraDB Cluster
A synchronous, multi-master MySQL clustering solution built on Galera replication, developed by Percona as a high-availability alternative to standalone MySQL.
phpMyAdmin
A free web-based administration tool, written in PHP, for managing MySQL and MariaDB over the web.
Prometheus MySQL Server Exporter
The official Prometheus exporter for MySQL and MariaDB server metrics — global status and variables, InnoDB engine status, replication state, and Performance Schema data.
ProxySQL
A high-performance MySQL proxy with query routing, load balancing, and failover support.
ps-top
A top-like, real-time terminal monitor for MySQL built on performance_schema — load by table, file, user, mutex, and SQL stage.
PyMySQL
A pure-Python MySQL and MariaDB client library implementing the Python Database API (PEP 249) — no C extension, no `libmysqlclient`, just Python.
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.
redactsql
A local SQL schema anonymizer for MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL — replaces table, column, index, and constraint names with neutral placeholders while preserving structure, so dumps can be shared safely for debugging or bug reports.
Sequel Ace
A free, native macOS database manager for MySQL and MariaDB — the actively maintained successor to Sequel Pro, distributed through the Mac App Store and Homebrew.
Sequelize
A promise-based Node.js ORM with first-class MySQL and MariaDB support, alongside Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and other dialects.
Skeema
A declarative schema management system created specifically for the MySQL ecosystem, with configurable linter and online schema change tool support.
Spirit
A multi-threaded online schema-change and data-migration tool for MySQL 8.0+, built by Block (Cash App) as a faster reimplementation of gh-ost's approach.
sqlc
A command-line compiler that generates fully type-safe code directly from plain SQL — you write the queries, sqlc generates the Go, Kotlin, Python, or TypeScript interfaces to call them, for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
StarRocks
An open-source MPP analytical database with native MySQL wire-protocol support, built for sub-second queries over local tables and data-lake tables alike.
sysbench
A scriptable, multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT — the de facto standard for OLTP-style load testing and CPU/memory/file-IO benchmarking of MySQL servers.
sysbench-tpcc
A set of Lua scripts for sysbench that drives a TPC-C-like OLTP workload against MySQL, used to load-test and compare server configurations under realistic contention.
Teleport
An identity-aware access platform that provides secure, audited, passwordless access to MySQL and other databases, servers, and Kubernetes clusters without opening inbound firewall ports or managing long-lived credentials.
TiDB
An open-source, distributed SQL database with MySQL wire-protocol compatibility, built for horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and hybrid transactional/analytical (HTAP) workloads.
TiDB Operator
The official Kubernetes operator for TiDB — automates deploying, scaling, upgrading, and managing TiDB clusters as cloud-native workloads.
TidesDB
A fast, embeddable transactional key-value storage engine library written in C on an LSM-tree, with TideSQL pluggable storage engines for MySQL and MariaDB.
TypeORM
A TypeScript and JavaScript ORM for Node.js with first-class MySQL and MariaDB support, alongside PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite, and other dialects.
VillageSQL Server
VillageSQL is the Innovation Platform for MySQL. It is a drop-in replacement for MySQL that adds an extension framework (similar to PostgreSQL's extension framework).
Vitess
A database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, born at YouTube and now a CNCF project.
WeScale
An open-source MySQL database proxy forked from Vitess — adds transparent read-write splitting, non-blocking declarative DDL, and connection scaling for application developers.