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MySQL Community Server

Current Release (Recommended)

MySQL 5.1—Generally Available (GA) release for production use

MySQL Cluster

MySQL Cluster is the world's most popular carrier grade database due to its high performance, high availability, scalability and ease of integration with existing systems and tools. MySQL Cluster has a low TCO due to its support for open standards, COTs hardware and low licensing costs.

• MySQL Cluster

MySQL Workbench (GUI Tool)

MySQL Workbench is the flagship GUI product for the MySQL Server that can be used to write and execute SQL queries and scripts, edit data, visually design database models and manage the MySQL Server.

• MySQL Workbench — Generally Available

MySQL Proxy

MySQL Proxy is a simple program that sits between your client and MySQL server(s) that can monitor, analyze or transform their communication. Its flexibility allows for unlimited uses; common ones include: load balancing; failover; query analysis; query filtering and modification; and many more.

• MySQL Proxy — Alpha

Drivers and Connectors

Note: Connector version numbers do not correlate with MySQL Server version numbers.

While many programming languages have included support for connecting to MySQL server, additional drivers are available:

MySQL Connector/J — for connecting to MySQL from Java

• MySQL Connector/J 5.1 — Generally Available (GA) release (recommended)
• MySQL Connector/J 5.0 — Previous Generally Available (GA) release
• Older releases — older releases (only recommended for special needs)
• Snapshots — source code snapshots of the development trees

MySQL Connector/Net — for connecting to MySQL from .NET

• MySQL Connector/Net 6.2 — Generally Available (GA) release (recommended for users of .NET 2.0 and higher)
• MySQL Connector/Net 6.1 — Previous Generally Available (GA) release
• MySQL Connector/Net 6.0 — Previous Generally Available (GA) release

Connector/ODBC - MySQL ODBC driver

• Connector/ODBC 5.1 — Generally Available (GA) release
• Connector/ODBC 3.51 — Previous Generally Available (GA) release
• Older releases — older releases (only recommended for special needs)

MySQL Connector/MXJ — for embedding MySQL server in Java applications

• MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0 — Generally Available (GA) release

MySQL Connector/C (libmysql) — A client library for C development

• MySQL Connector/C 6.0 — Generally Available (GA) release

MySQL Connector/C++ — for connecting to MySQL from C++

• MySQL Connector/C++ 1.0 — Generally Available (GA) release

mysqlnd — MySQL native driver for PHP

• MySQL native driver for PHP - mysqlnd— the MySQL native driver for PHP is an additional, alternative way to connect from PHP 6 to the MySQL Server 4.1 or newer.

Contributed APIs

• DBI — for connecting to MySQL from Perl
• Ruby — for connecting to MySQL from Ruby
• Python — for connecting to MySQL from Python
• .NET — for connecting to MySQL from .NET
• MySQL++ — for connecting to MySQL from C++
• Ch — for connecting to MySQL from Ch (C/C++ interpreter)

Optimized Open Source Software Stack

• Sun GlassFish Web Stack — for the Sun Solaris Operating System

Other Downloads

• Eventum — Eventum is a user-friendly and flexible issue tracking system
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