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# awesome-mysql



A curated list of awesome MySQL free and opensource software, libraries and resources. [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)



This list accepts and encourages pull requests. See [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/shlomi-noach/awesome-mysql/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)



### Contents



- [Awesome MySQL](#awesome-mysql)

    - [Analysis](#analysis)

    - [Backup](#backup)

    - [Benchmarking](#benchmarking)

    - [Binlog Replication](#binlog-replication)

    - [ChatOps](#chatops)

    - [Configuration](#configuration)

    - [Connectors](#connectors)

    - [Deployment](#deployment)

    - [Development](#development)

    - [GUI](#gui)

    - [HA](#ha)

    - [MCP](#mcp)

    - [Proxy](#proxy)

    - [Replication](#replication)

    - [Schema](#schema)

    - [Security](#security)

    - [Server](#server)

    - [Sharding](#sharding)

    - [Toolkits](#toolkits)



- [Resources](#resources)

    - [E-Books](#e-books)



- [Incubating](#incubating)



## Analysis



*Performance, structure & data analysis tools*



- [Anemometer](https://github.com/box/Anemometer) - Box SQL slow query monitor.

- [innodb-ruby](https://github.com/jeremycole/innodb_ruby) - A parser for InnoDB file formats, in Ruby.

- [innotop](https://github.com/innotop/innotop) - a 'top' clone for MySQL with many features and flexibility.

- [MySQL Explain Analyzer](https://github.com/Preetam/explain-analyzer) - A web-based analyzer of `EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON` output, providing comments, scalability analysis and permalinks for saved samples.

- [mysql-statsd](https://github.com/db-art/mysql-statsd) - A Python daemon to collect information from MySQL and send it via StatsD to Graphite.

- [MySQLTuner-perl](https://github.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl) - A script that allows you to review a MySQL installation quickly and make adjustments to increase performance and stability.

- [Prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus)/[mysqld_exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/mysqld_exporter) - Time series database for real-time monitoring and alerting.

- [pstop](https://github.com/sjmudd/ps-top) - a top-like program for MySQL, collecting, aggregating and displaying information from performance_schema.

- [ReliaDB EXPLAIN Analyzer](https://github.com/Mughees52/mysql-explain-analyzer) - a browser-based MySQL and MariaDB EXPLAIN visualizer with issue detection, index recommendations, and query rewrites. 100% client-side.

- [Wireshark](https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/) - a protocol analyzer that can decode the MySQL protocol.

- [Dolphie](https://github.com/charles-001/dolphie) - a modern terminal tool for real-time analytics into MySQL/MariaDB & ProxySQL

- [sql-tap](https://github.com/mickamy/sql-tap) - Real-time SQL traffic viewer.



## Backup



*Backup/restore/recovery tools*



- [Databasus](https://github.com/databasus/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](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/tree/master/dumpling) - Logical, parallel backup/dumper tool for MySQL/TiDB written in GoLang - support csv format output and integrated as library

- [MyDumper](https://github.com/mydumper/mydumper) - Logical, parallel backup/dumper tool for MySQL

- [Percona Xtrabackup](https://github.com/percona/percona-xtrabackup) - an open-source hot backup utility for MySQL - based servers that doesn’t lock your database during the backup.

- [Portabase](https://github.com/Portabase/portabase) - Agent-based platform for MySQL backups and restores with decentralized execution and centralized orchestration.



## Benchmarking



*Tools to stress your servers*



- [HammerDB](https://github.com/TPC-Council/HammerDB) - An open-source database benchmark for MySQL/MariaDB and other open source and commercial databases.

- [go-tpc](https://github.com/pingcap/go-tpc) - A golang port of [TPCC](http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/) and [TPCH](http://www.tpc.org/tpch/) benchmark for MySQL.

- [iibench-mysql](https://github.com/tmcallaghan/iibench-mysql) - Java based version of the Index Insertion Benchmark for MySQL/Percona/MariaDB.

- [Sysbench](https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench) - a modular, cross-platform and multi-threaded benchmark tool.

- [TPCC-MySQL](https://github.com/Percona-Lab/tpcc-mysql) (archived) - A port of the popular [TPCC](http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/) benchmark for MySQL.



## Binlog-Replication



- [DM](https://github.com/pingcap/tiflow) - A High-Availability data migration platform which supports migrating data from MySQL/MariaDB to TiDB and merging shard tables

- [Kingbus](https://github.com/flike/kingbus) - A distributed MySQL binlog storage system built on Raft

- [mysql-ripple](https://github.com/google/mysql-ripple) (archived) - Ripple, a server that can serve as a middleman in MySQL replication



## ChatOps



*Scripts integrated into chat rooms*



- [Hubot MySQL ChatOps](https://github.com/samlambert/hubot-mysql-chatops)



## Configuration



*MySQL sample configuration and advisors*



- [mysql-compatibility-config](https://github.com/morgo/mysql-compatibility-config) - make MySQL configuration behave more like newer (or older) releases of MySQL.



## Connectors



*MySQL connectors for various programming languages*



- [ballerinax/mysql](https://github.com/ballerina-platform/module-ballerinax-mysql) - Official Ballerina connector for MySQL.

- [DBD::MariaDB](https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-MariaDB) - MariaDB and MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface.

- [DBD::mysql](https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql) - MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface.

- [go-sql-driver](https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql) - a lightweight and fast MySQL-Driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package.

- [libAttachSQL](https://github.com/libattachsql/libattachsql) - libAttachSQL is a lightweight, non-blocking C API for MySQL servers.

- [MariaDB Connector/J](https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-j) - LGPL-licensed MariaDB Client Library for Java Applications.

- [mex-mariadb](https://github.com/markuman/mex-mariadb) - MIT licensed MariaDB/MySQL Client Library for GNU Octave and Matlab.

- [MySQL C API](https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/c-api/) - Official C driver for MySQL.

- [MySQL Connector/C++](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-cpp) - Official C/C++ driver for MySQL.

- [MySQL Connector/J](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-j) - a standardized database driver for the Java platforms and development.

- [MySQL Connector/NET](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-net) - a standardized database driver for .Net platforms and development.

- [MySQL Connector/Node.js](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-nodejs) - Official Node.js driver for MySQL.

- [MySQL Connector/Python](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-python) - a standardized database driver for Python platforms and development.

- [mysqlclient-python](https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient) - MySQL database connector for Python.

- [node-mysql](https://github.com/mysqljs/mysql) - A pure Nodejs Javascript client implementing the MySQL protocol.

- [PHP mysqlnd](https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.mysqlnd.php) - MySQL native driver for PHP.

- [PyMySQL](https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL) - MySQL database connector for Python.

- [Ruby Mysql2 gem](https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2) - MySQL driver for Ruby and Rails projects.

- [MyZql](https://github.com/speed2exe/myzql) - MySQL and MariaDB driver in native Zig.

- [wtx](https://github.com/c410-f3r/wtx) - Client for MySQL/MariaDB/Percona written in Rust



## Deployment



*MySQL deployment tools*



- [dbdeployer](https://github.com/ProxySQL/dbdeployer) - A tool that installs one or more MySQL servers within seconds, easily, securely, and with full control.

- [MariaDB4j](https://github.com/MariaDB4j/MariaDB4j) - A Java launcher to run MariaDB without installation or external dependencies.



## Development



*Tools to support MySQL-related development*



- [Flywaydb](https://github.com/flyway/flyway) - Database migrations; Evolve your database schema easily and reliably across all your instances

- [dbsafe](https://github.com/nethalo/dbsafe) - Pre-execution safety analysis for MySQL DDL/DML operations

- [Liquibase](https://github.com/liquibase/liquibase) - Source control for your database

- [Shift](https://github.com/square/shift) - An application that helps you run schema migrations on MySQL databases

- [Skeema](https://github.com/skeema/skeema) - Declarative pure-SQL schema management system for MySQL and MariaDB, with support for sharding and external online schema change tools

- [SQLE](https://github.com/actiontech/sqle/blob/main/README_en.md) - SQLE is a SQL audit platform for DBA or developer

- [Test database](https://github.com/datacharmer/test_db) - A sample MySQL database with an integrated test suite, used to test applications and servers

- [cover_me](https://github.com/verizonconnect/cover_me) - code coverage tool for mysql stored procedures and functions



## GUI



*GUI frontends & applications*



- [Adminer](https://github.com/vrana/adminer/) - Database management in a single PHP file.

- [DBeaver](https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/) - A cross-platform SQL and NoSQL database client.

- [StackRender](https://github.com/stackrender/stackrender) - Free and open-source database schema design and SQL migration generator for MySQL. 

- [HeidiSQL](https://github.com/HeidiSQL/HeidiSQL) - MySQL GUI frontend for Windows.

- [ILLA Cloud](https://github.com/illacloud/illa-builder) - Low-code internal tool builder integrated with Mysql, can be used as GUI for Mysql. 

- [LibreDB Studio](https://github.com/libredb/libredb-studio) - Browser-based SQL IDE for MySQL and nine other engines, deployed as a container or Helm chart next to the database.

- [mycli](https://github.com/dbcli/mycli) - A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.

- [MySQL Shell](https://github.com/mysql/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](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-workbench) - provides DBAs and developers an integrated tools environment for database design & modeling; SQL devleopment; database administration.

- [Ocelot GUI](https://github.com/ocelot-inc/ocelotgui) - GUI client for MySQL or MariaDB, including debugger.

- [OmniDB: Web tool for database management](https://github.com/OmniDB/OmniDB)

- [Percona Monitoring and Management](https://github.com/percona/pmm) - An open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL performance.

- [phpMyAdmin](https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin) - a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web.

- [pspg](https://github.com/okbob/pspg) - provides a pager with enhanced visualization and navigation for tabular data. Originally implemented for PostgreSQL, but also supports MySQL.

- [Sequel Ace](https://github.com/Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace) - a Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.

- [TablePro](https://github.com/TableProApp/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](https://github.com/webyog/sqlyog-community) - SQLyog Community edition. For Windows, works fine under wine in Mac and Linux

- [squix](https://github.com/eduardofuncao/squix) - SQL command-line client with query management and interactive results.

- [WebDB](https://github.com/WebDB-App/app) – 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](https://github.com/codership/galera) - a true Multimaster Cluster based on synchronous replication.

- [mha4mysql-node](https://github.com/yoshinorim/mha4mysql-node) and [mha4mysql-manager](https://github.com/yoshinorim/mha4mysql-manager) (both unmaintained) - Master High Availability Manager and tools for MySQL.

- [Orchestrator](https://github.com/ProxySQL/orchestrator) - MySQL replication topology management and High Availability solution.

- [Percona Replication Manager](https://github.com/percona/replication-manager) - Asynchronous MySQL replication manager agent for Pacemaker. Supports file and GTID based replication, geo-distributed clusters using booth.

- [replication-manager](https://github.com/signal18/replication-manager) - a high availability solution to manage MariaDB 10.x and MySQL & Percona Server 5.7 GTID replication topologies.



## MCP



- [MCP MariaDB Server](https://github.com/MariaDB/mcp) - the official MariaDB MCP server.

- [MySQL MCP Server](https://github.com/askdba/mysql-mcp-server) - Advanced MCP server exposing MySQL via the Model Context Protocol

- [TiDB MCP Server](https://pingcap.github.io/ai/integrations/tidb-mcp-server/) - MCP Server for TiDB.



## Proxy



*Proxies to MySQL*



- [MySQL Router](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-router/en/) - 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](https://github.com/sysown/proxysql) - High performance proxy for MySQL.



## Replication



*Replication related software*



* [data-diff](https://github.com/datafold/data-diff) (archived) - Command-line tool and Python library to efficiently diff rows across two different databases.



## Schema



*Add-on schemas*



- [common_schema](https://github.com/shlomi-noach/common_schema) - DBA's framework for MySQL, providing a function library, views library and QueryScript interpreter.

- [sys](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-sys) (archived) - A collection of views, functions and procedures to help MySQL administrators get insight in to MySQL Database usage. See [sys schema docs](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/sys-schema.html)



## Security



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



- [Acra](https://github.com/cossacklabs/acra) - SQL database protection suite: strong selective encryption, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection system.

- [myanon](https://github.com/ppomes/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](https://github.com/6eh01der/myldapsync) - Synchronize MySQL or MariaDB users with users in an LDAP directory.



## Server



*MySQL server flavors*



- [MariaDB](https://github.com/MariaDB/server) - Community developed fork of MySQL server.

- [MySQL Server & MySQL Cluster](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server) - Official Oracle's MySQL server & MySQL Cluster distribution.

- [MyVector](https://github.com/askdba/myvector) - Native vector search plugin for MySQL, shipped as a server plugin.

- [Percona Server](https://github.com/percona/percona-server) - An enhanced, drop-in MySQL replacement.

- [TiDB](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb) - A distributed HTAP database compatible with the MySQL protocol.



## Sharding



*Sharding solutions/frameworks*



- [Jetpants](https://github.com/tumblr/jetpants) - An automation suite for managing large range sharding clusters, by Tumblr.

- [Vitess](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess) - vitess provides servers and tools which facilitate scaling of MySQL databases for large scale web services.



## Toolkits



*Toolkits, general purpose scripts*



* [sqlaxe](https://github.com/djberube/sqlaxe) - CLI tool for searching, filtering, formatting, and splitting SQL files.

- [gh-ost](https://github.com/github/gh-ost/) - GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL.

- [go-mysql](https://github.com/go-mysql-org/go-mysql) - A pure go library to handle MySQL network protocol and replication.

- [MySQL Utilities](https://github.com/mysql/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](https://github.com/percona/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](https://github.com/HelgeSverre/sql-splitter) - High-performance CLI for splitting, merging, converting, validating, and sampling mysqldump files.

- [Swoof](https://github.com/StirlingMarketingGroup/swoof) - Ultra fast MySQL table importer that stages swaps through temporary tables and supports file/clipboard targets.

- [UnDROP](https://github.com/twindb/undrop-for-innodb) (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](http://spots.augusta.edu/caubert/db/ln/) - 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](https://github.com/XD-DENG/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](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SQL_Exercises).



## Incubating



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



- [masume](https://github.com/masumedb/masume) - Keyboard-first terminal database client with AI chat and an MCP server.

- [VillageSQL](https://github.com/villagesql/villagesql-server) - A drop-in replacement for MySQL with extensions for the agentic AI era.