By now you’ve read Mike Frank’s excellent introduction to the MySQL 8.0 release and it’s Document Store.  In that post Mike laid out the benefits of the new Document Store model and briefly outlined the different components involved.  While it’s fair to consider the Document Store as the first pillar of the new MySQL 8 Document story, we must identify the X DevAPI to be the second.  The post covers our motivation, goals, and overall design principles of this new API.

Motivation

Most of our connectors have not implemented their own API.  Rather, most of them implement externally defined interfaces.   Examples include our Connector/J that implements the JDBC standard, Connector/Net that implements the ADO.Net standard, and our Connector/ODBC.  None of these standards work well for a document-oriented database.  In …

As you may have heard, MySQL 8.0 is now officially GA, and it comes with a bunch of additional goodies. Among those is the brand new Connector/Node.js, which is the official MySQL driver for Node.js and, currently, the only one with support for the latest server versions and features (such as the MySQL document store).

Here’s a rundown of what’s available:

• Out-of-the box support for MySQL 8.0
• Document-store API as a first-class citizen
• TLS/SSL and SHA256 authentication
• Fluent API with support for flexible parameters
• Semantic methods to encode common CRUD operations
• Modern Node.js asynchronous interface based on Promises
• Abstractions for common database development tasks
• Transactions, savepoints and row locking

MySQL 8.0

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MySQL 8.0 is now finally GA, bringing into play the powerful Document Store set of feature along with Connectors for many of the most popular languages! Also PHP is coming with it’s own extension designed to support all of the new exciting feature coming with this latest MySQL milestone.

The complete web documentation for the MySQL X DevAPI Extension for PHP is available here.

About Document Store.

The X DevAPI for PHP is an extension which allows the user to access MySQL with installed the X Plugin as a document store via the X DevAPI and the related underlying protocol.

A …

We are proud to announce that with version 8.0.11 the new MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0 series becomes GA! Connector/C++ 8.0 is your gateway to the new exciting features of MySQL Server 8.0 such as MySQL Document Store. It also lets you perform your usual database tasks in a simpler and more powerful way using new, modern APIs that bring to you the full advantage of modern C++ programming language.

The 8.0 series is a true milestone in the development of Connector/C++. We have not only added new APIs but also completely re-implemented the connector to create good foundation for future innovation and improvements.The new implementation of Connector/C++ is based entirely on the new X Protocol of MySQL Server 8.0 and is highly modular to allow rapid development of new features. For the first time we aligned our APIs with other MySQL connectors. Also, for the …

Members of the .NET and MySQL communities and anyone interested in the subject, we are glad to announce the release of Connector/NET 8.0.11. This is the first GA release in the 8.0 series and it comes with full support for MySQL 8.0 (also now a GA) including its main feature… the MySQL Document Store!

What is new in MySQL 8.0?

X Protocol / X Plugin

The X Protocol is a new, highly extensible protocol optimized for SQL and CRUD API operations. It is based on the popular open source protocol definition language and provides a common interface for connectors to communicate with MySQL server through the …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Net 8.0.10 is the first release candidate of MySQL
Connector/Net to add support for the new X DevAPI. The X DevAPI enables
application developers to write code that combines the strengths of the
relational and document models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that
does not assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/index.html. For more
information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in Connector/Net, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-net.

Please note that the X DevAPI requires at least MySQL Server version
5.7.12 or higher with the X …

Dear MySQL users,

I’m glad to announce that MySQL X DevAPI extension for PHP 8.0.3 has been recently released!

If for some reason you don’t know what this is all about, then in short the MySQL X DevAPI for PHP add support for the new X DevAPI in PHP, and it’s released as an extension to the language. The X DevAPI enables application developers to write code that combines the strengths of the relational and document models –MySQL as a Document Store– using a modern NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

For general documentation about how to get started using MySQL as a document store, see “Using MySQL as a Document Store”.

Download the extension.

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MySQL Connector/Net 8.0.8 is the fifth development release that expands cross-platform
support to Linux and macOS when using Microsoft’s .NET Core framework. Now, .NET
developers can use the X DevAPI with .NET Core and Entity Framework Core (EF Core)
1.0 to create server applications that run on Windows, Linux and macOS. We are very
excited about this change and really look forward to your feedback on it!

MySQL Connector/Net 8.0.8 is also the seventh development release of MySQL
Connector/Net to add support for the new X DevAPI. The X DevAPI enables application
developers to write code that combines the strengths of the relational and document
models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience
writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see
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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/J 8.0.7 Development Release is a development milestone release for the 8.0.x series.
This release includes the following new features and changes, also described in more detail on https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/8.0/en/news-8-0-7.html

MySQL Connectors and other MySQL client tools and applications now synchronize the first digit of their version number with the (highest) MySQL server version they support.
This change makes it easy and intuitive to decide which client version to use for which server version.

Connector/J 8.0.7 is the first release to use the new numbering. It is the successor to Connector/J 6.0.6

As always, we recommend that you check the “CHANGES” file in the download archive to be aware of changes in behavior that might affect your …

The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release of MySQL for Visual Studio 2.0.4 m3. Note that this is a development preview release and not intended for production usage.

MySQL for Visual Studio 2.0.4 m3 is the third development preview release of the MySQL for Visual Studio 2.0 series.  This series adds support for the new X DevAPI. The X DevAPI enables application developers to write code that combines the strengths of the relational and document models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/. For more information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in MySQL for Visual Studio, and its usage, see …