MySQL Ecosystem Showcase
Explore tools and projects built with, for, or on MySQL.
Inspired by Shlomi Noach's Awesome MySQL and the fork by Alkin Tezuysal.
Square
A Square-developed tool for running schema migrations on MySQL databases. It is useful historically for understanding automated schema-change workflows but is much less prominent than current migration platforms.
Skeema
A declarative, pure-SQL schema management system for MySQL and MariaDB. It lets teams treat database schema as code and supports workflows involving sharding and online schema-change tools.
SQL-exercise
XD-DENG
A collection of SQL exercises with schema diagrams, setup scripts, questions, and solutions. It is intended for practicing SQL skills and is based in part on the Wikibook SQL Exercises material.
SQLAlchemy
SQLAlchemy
SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL. SQLAlchemy provides a full suite of well known enterprise-level persistence patterns, designed for efficient and high-performing database access, adapted into a simple and Pythonic domain language.
ActionTech
A SQL auditing and governance platform aimed at DBAs and developers. It focuses on review, auditing, and controlled execution of SQL changes in development and production environments.
SQLize Online — Free SQL Playground
Slava Rozhnev
SQLize Online is a browser‑based SQL playground supporting multiple MySQL versions, including the latest releases, allowing developers to test and compare behavior across engines without any local setup.
The platform includes preloaded sample databases, such as Sakila, enabling quick experimentation, learning, and demonstration of SQL features.
SQLize provides powerful productivity tools: shareable query links, persistent snippets, saved workspaces, and built‑in formatting and ER diagram generation. Logged‑in users also gain access to AI‑assisted SQL explanations, query generation, and debugging, making SQLize a versatile environment for both beginners and professionals.
With support for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, SQL Server, and more, SQLize Online is widely used for prototyping, interviews, analytics validation, and teaching SQL across teams worldwide.
SQLyog Community edition
Webyog / Idera
A Windows-oriented MySQL GUI that provides query editing, administration, and database browsing. The community edition is a historical project and is less prominent today than DBeaver, HeidiSQL, or other actively developed clients.
STX Spatial Plugin for MySQL
sakaik
A MySQL plugin that extends MySQL’s built-in GIS capabilities with additional spatial functions (STX_*), powered by Boost.Geometry. It adds operations for manipulating and analyzing geometry data directly within MySQL.
Swoof
Stirling Marketing Group
A specialized fast MySQL table importer that stages data loading through temporary tables and table swaps. It is aimed at bulk-import workflows where minimizing production-table disruption matters.
Oracle / MySQL Team
The official MySQL sys schema provides views, functions, and procedures that make Performance Schema information easier for administrators to consume. It is a standard operational component for investigating MySQL activity and performance.