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.
MySQL Docker
Docker Community / MySQL Team
The official Docker image for MySQL provides containerized MySQL server deployments with versioned image tags. It is a standard building block for local development, testing, CI, and containerized environments.
MySQL Explain Analyzer
Preetam
A web-based analyzer for MySQL EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON output. It adds commentary, scalability analysis, and shareable/permalink-style examples for understanding query execution plans.
MySQL MCP Server
askdba
This project exposes safe MySQL introspection tools to Claude Desktop via MCP. Claude can explore databases, describe schemas, and execute controlled read-only SQL queries — ideal for secure development assistance, debugging, analytics, and schema documentation.
MySQL OpenSSL UDF
Mikhail Chuloshnikov
mysql-openssl provides MySQL User-Defined Functions (UDFs) for encrypting and decrypting database data using OpenSSL, supporting algorithms including AES, Camellia, ChaCha20, and others. It can provide transparent database-level encryption through views and optional triggers without requiring application-code changes.
MySQL Proxy
Oracle / MySQL Team
A historical middleware proxy that could monitor, analyze, or transform MySQL client/server communication. It is explicitly deprecated and should not be considered for new architectures.
MySQL Router
Oracle / MySQL Team
A lightweight middleware component for transparent routing between applications and MySQL servers. It is a core part of the modern MySQL InnoDB Cluster architecture and current MySQL high-availability deployments.
MySQL Server & MySQL Cluster
Oracle / MySQL Team
The official MySQL Server source tree, including MySQL Cluster components. It is the canonical upstream implementation of MySQL maintained by Oracle's MySQL organization.
MySQL Shell
Oracle / MySQL Team
Oracle's modern command-line client and administration shell for MySQL. It supports SQL, JavaScript, and Python modes and includes AdminAPI capabilities for managing MySQL InnoDB Cluster and related deployments.
MySQL Utilities
Oracle / MySQL Team
A historical collection of Python command-line utilities for MySQL administration and replication management. It has been deprecated and should not be treated as a preferred toolset for new deployments.
MySQL Workbench
Oracle / MySQL Team
The official graphical environment for MySQL database design, SQL development, administration, and modeling. It remains a major desktop tool even though MySQL Shell has become the more modern administrative interface.