22.4 Python Quick-Start Guide: MySQL Shell for Document Store

22.4.1 MySQL Shell

22.4.2 Download and Import world_x Database

22.4.3 Documents and Collections

22.4.4 Relational Tables

22.4.5 Documents in Tables

This quick-start guide provides instructions to begin prototyping document store applications interactively with MySQL Shell. The guide includes the following topics:

• Introduction to MySQL functionality, MySQL Shell, and the world_x example schema.

• Operations to manage collections and documents.

• Operations to manage relational tables.

• Operations that apply to documents within tables.

To follow this quick-start guide you need a MySQL server with X Plugin installed, the default in 8.4, and MySQL Shell to use as the client. MySQL Shell includes X DevAPI, implemented in both JavaScript and Python, which enables you to connect to the MySQL server instance using X Protocol and use the server as a Document Store.

Related Information

• MySQL Shell 8.4 provides more in-depth information about MySQL Shell.

• See Installing MySQL Shell and Section 22.5, “X Plugin” for more information about the tools used in this quick-start guide.

• See Supported Languages for more information about the languages MySQL Shell supports.

• X DevAPI User Guide provides more examples of using X DevAPI to develop applications which use MySQL as a Document Store.

• A JavaScript quick-start guide is also available.