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 Connector/C is the foundational native driver for talking to MariaDB and MySQL servers from C or C++, implementing the wire protocol, authentication plugins, and connection pooling that sit underneath it. Several of MariaDB’s own higher-level connectors (and some third-party drivers in other languages) link against it rather than re-implementing the protocol themselves.
It’s released under the LGPL 2.1, developed in the mariadb-corporation GitHub organization, and is currently at version 3.4.11 with more than 2,500 commits on its active branch.
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