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 implements the MySQL client/server wire protocol and binary log replication format directly in Go, with no cgo dependency on libmysqlclient. It bundles several building blocks on top of that: a lightweight client package for issuing queries, a driver package that plugs into Go’s database/sql, a replication package for parsing binlog events as a replica would, a server package for implementing MySQL-compatible servers and proxies, and the canal package for streaming row-level changes into systems like Elasticsearch or Redis.
It’s dual-licensed under MIT and BSD-3-Clause (parts of the replication code are adapted from Vitess), and is maintained by the go-mysql-org community as the successor to the original siddontang/go-mysql project. It’s a common dependency underneath other Go-based MySQL tooling — including CDC and sync utilities — rather than an end-user application on its own.
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