MySQL Ecosystem Showcase
Explore tools and projects built with, for, or on MySQL.
Inspired by Shlomi Noach's Awesome MySQL and the askdba fork.
Percona Server
Percona
An enhanced, drop-in-compatible MySQL distribution maintained by Percona. It adds operational, performance, observability, and enterprise-oriented capabilities while remaining compatible with the MySQL ecosystem.
Percona Toolkit
Percona
Comprehensive toolkit of command-line utilities for diagnostics, replication, schema changes, and maintenance. A standard utility collection for MySQL DBAs.
Percona XtraBackup
Percona
A hot-backup utility for MySQL-compatible servers that can take physical backups without locking the database for the duration of the operation. It is a long-standing Percona production backup product.
PHP mysqlnd
PHP project
MySQL Native Driver is PHP's native MySQL client implementation used underneath the modern PHP MySQL extensions. It is a platform component rather than a standalone application-level MySQL product.
phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin project
A long-standing browser-based administration interface for MySQL and MariaDB written in PHP. It supports database and table management, SQL execution, imports/exports, and many routine DBA tasks.
Prisma
Prisma
Prisma is a modern, type-safe ORM for Node.js and TypeScript that simplifies working with MySQL and other relational databases through an auto-generated, strongly typed client. It uses a declarative schema to define your data model and includes built-in tools for database migrations, schema introspection, and data management. Prisma is widely adopted for modern web applications due to its excellent developer experience and strong TypeScript integration.
Prometheus / mysqld_exporter
Prometheus / MySQL community
Prometheus provides the metrics and alerting platform, while mysqld_exporter exposes MySQL server metrics for collection. Together they form a common open-source monitoring stack for MySQL deployments.
ProxySQL
ProxySQL project
A high-performance, SQL-aware proxy for MySQL-compatible databases. It provides connection pooling, query routing, load balancing, failover, query rules, and other production traffic-management capabilities.
pspg
Pavel Stehule / okbob
A terminal pager that improves navigation and visualization of tabular query output. It originated around PostgreSQL workflows but also supports MySQL and other database clients.
Simon J. Mudd
A top-like command-line program for MySQL that collects and aggregates information from Performance Schema. It is useful for interactive investigation directly from a terminal.