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Feb 25, 2026

Development

• dbsafe (⭐9) - Pre-execution safety analysis for MySQL DDL/DML operations

Feb 15, 2026

Analysis

• sql-tap (⭐650) - Real-time SQL traffic viewer.

Feb 13, 2026

Toolkits

• sql-splitter (⭐3) - High-performance CLI for splitting, merging, converting, validating, and sampling mysqldump files.

Feb 12, 2026

Security

• myanon (⭐112) - Streaming anonymizer for MySQL dump files, reading mysqldump output from stdin and writing anonymized data to stdout. Supports deterministic hashing, fixed values, JSON field anonymization, and Python extensions.

Feb 10, 2026

Connectors

• node-mysql (⭐19k) - A pure Nodejs Javascript client implementing the MySQL protocol.

Feb 09, 2026

Backup

• Portabase (⭐319) - Agent-based platform for MySQL backups and restores with decentralized execution and centralized orchestration.

Incubating

• VillageSQL (⭐97) - A drop-in replacement for MySQL with extensions for the agentic AI era.

Feb 07, 2026

Benchmarking

• HammerDB (⭐733) - An open-source database benchmark for MySQL/MariaDB and other open source and commercial databases.

Feb 05, 2026

Server

• MyVector (⭐1) - Native vector search plugin for MySQL, shipped as a server plugin.

Dec 31, 2025

Backup

• Databasus (⭐5.5k) - tool for scheduled MySQL backups via web UI with external storages (local, S3, FTP, Google Drive, etc.), notifications (webhook, Discord, Slack, etc.) and team management.

Dec 11, 2025

MCP

• MySQL MCP Server (⭐12) - Advanced MCP server exposing MySQL via the Model Context Protocol

• TiDB MCP Server - MCP Server for TiDB.

Dec 10, 2025

Toolkits

• Swoof (⭐28) - Ultra fast MySQL table importer that stages swaps through temporary tables and supports file/clipboard targets.

Dec 01, 2025

MCP

• MCP MariaDB Server (⭐131) - the official MariaDB MCP server.

Mar 18, 2025

Security

• myldapsync (⭐0) - Synchronize MySQL or MariaDB users with users in an LDAP directory.

Mar 05, 2025

Connectors

• wtx (⭐342) - Client for MySQL/MariaDB/Percona written in Rust

Dec 06, 2024

Connectors

• ballerinax/mysql (⭐111) - Official Ballerina connector for MySQL.

Aug 21, 2024

Analysis

• Dolphie (⭐1.1k) - a modern terminal tool for real-time analytics into MySQL/MariaDB & ProxySQL

Jul 11, 2024

Deployment

• MariaDB4j (⭐894) - A Java launcher to run MariaDB without installation or external dependencies.

Jul 06, 2024

Connectors

• MyZql (⭐67) - MySQL and MariaDB driver in native Zig.

Jun 04, 2024

HA

• mha4mysql-node (⭐410) and mha4mysql-manager (⭐1.5k) (both unmaintained) - Master High Availability Manager and tools for MySQL.

Jun 03, 2024

Analysis

• Prometheus (⭐63k)/mysqld_exporter (⭐2.4k) - Time series database for real-time monitoring and alerting.

Benchmarking

• iibench-mysql (⭐46) - Java based version of the Index Insertion Benchmark for MySQL/Percona/MariaDB.

Connectors

• DBD::MariaDB (⭐40) - MariaDB and MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface.

• DBD::mysql (⭐67) - MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface.

• MariaDB Connector/J (⭐357) - LGPL-licensed MariaDB Client Library for Java Applications.

• MySQL C API - Official C driver for MySQL.

• MySQL Connector/C++ (⭐699) - Official C/C++ driver for MySQL.

• MySQL Connector/J (⭐1k) - a standardized database driver for the Java platforms and development.

• MySQL Connector/NET (⭐324) - a standardized database driver for .Net platforms and development.

• MySQL Connector/Node.js (⭐159) - Official Node.js driver for MySQL.

• MySQL Connector/Python (⭐943) - a standardized database driver for Python platforms and development.

• mysqlclient-python (⭐2.5k) - MySQL database connector for Python.

• PHP mysqlnd - MySQL native driver for PHP.

Development

• Flywaydb (⭐9.5k) - Database migrations; Evolve your database schema easily and reliably across all your instances

• Liquibase (⭐5.4k) - Source control for your database

• Skeema (⭐1.4k) - Declarative pure-SQL schema management system for MySQL and MariaDB, with support for sharding and external online schema change tools

• SQLE (⭐1.5k) - SQLE is a SQL audit platform for DBA or developer

GUI

• Adminer (⭐7.3k) - Database management in a single PHP file.

• DBeaver (⭐49k) - A cross-platform SQL and NoSQL database client.

• HeidiSQL (⭐5.8k) - MySQL GUI frontend for Windows.

• MySQL Shell (⭐217) - Advanced client and code editor for MySQL that supports development and administration for the MySQL Server and MySQL InnoDB cluster (AdminAPI) with an interactive JavaScript, Python, or SQL interface.

• MySQL Workbench (⭐984) - provides DBAs and developers an integrated tools environment for database design & modeling; SQL devleopment; database administration.

• OmniDB: Web tool for database management (⭐3.3k)

• Percona Monitoring and Management (⭐965) - An open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL performance.

• phpMyAdmin (⭐7.8k) - a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web.

HA

• Galera Cluster (⭐487) - a true Multimaster Cluster based on synchronous replication.

• Orchestrator (⭐5.8k) (archived) - MySQL replication topology management and High Availability solution.

Proxy

• ProxySQL (⭐6.6k) - High performance proxy for MySQL.

Server

• Percona Server (⭐1.3k) - An enhanced, drop-in MySQL replacement.

Sharding

• Jetpants (⭐1.1k) - An automation suite for managing large range sharding clusters, by Tumblr.

• Vitess (⭐21k) - vitess provides servers and tools which facilitate scaling of MySQL databases for large scale web services.

Toolkits

• MySQL Utilities (⭐278) (deprecated) - a collection of command-line utilities, written in Python, that are used for maintaining and administering MySQL servers, either individually, or within Replication hierarchies.

• Percona Toolkit (⭐1.5k) - a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually.

May 30, 2024

Analysis

• MySQLTuner-perl (⭐9.4k) - A script that allows you to review a MySQL installation quickly and make adjustments to increase performance and stability.

• Wireshark - a protocol analyzer that can decode the MySQL protocol.

Backup

• Percona Xtrabackup (⭐1.5k) - an open-source hot backup utility for MySQL - based servers that doesn’t lock your database during the backup.

Benchmarking

• TPCC-MySQL (⭐490) (archived) - A port of the popular TPCC benchmark for MySQL.

GUI

• WebDB (⭐333) – Open Source and Efficient Database IDE. Featuring Easy server connection, Modern ERD, Intelligent data generator, AI assistant, NoSQL structure manager, Time machine and Powerful query editor

Toolkits

• UnDROP (⭐416) (archived) - a tool to recover data from dropped or corrupted InnoDB tables.

May 29, 2024

Backup

• Dumpling (⭐40k) - Logical, parallel backup/dumper tool for MySQL/TiDB written in GoLang - support csv format output and integrated as library

• MyDumper (⭐3k) - Logical, parallel backup/dumper tool for MySQL

Binlog-Replication

• DM (⭐454) - A High-Availability data migration platform which supports migrating data from MySQL/MariaDB to TiDB and merging shard tables

• mysql-ripple (⭐377) (archived) - Ripple, a server that can serve as a middleman in MySQL replication

GUI

• SQLyog Community edition (⭐2.3k) - SQLyog Community edition. For Windows, works fine under wine in Mac and Linux

Toolkits

• go-mysql (⭐4.9k) - A pure go library to handle MySQL network protocol and replication.

Sep 26, 2023

HA

• Percona Replication Manager (⭐7) - Asynchronous MySQL replication manager agent for Pacemaker. Supports file and GTID based replication, geo-distributed clusters using booth.

Feb 03, 2023

GUI

• ILLA Cloud (⭐12k) - Low-code internal tool builder integrated with Mysql, can be used as GUI for Mysql.

Jun 23, 2022

Replication

• data-diff (⭐3k) (archived) - Command-line tool and Python library to efficiently diff rows across two different databases.

Oct 06, 2021

GUI

• Sequel Ace (⭐7.3k) - a Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.

Sep 15, 2020

e-books

• Database Systems Lecture Notes - lecture notes on Database Systems (available in pdf, html, odt and markdown) including a Chapter on SQL that covers basic set-up, exercises and problems.

Jul 30, 2020

Benchmarking

• go-tpc (⭐210) - A golang port of TPCC and TPCH benchmark for MySQL.

May 31, 2019

Development

• Test database (⭐4.4k) - A sample MySQL database with an integrated test suite, used to test applications and servers

Apr 08, 2019

Binlog-Replication

• Kingbus (⭐895) - A distributed MySQL binlog storage system built on Raft

Jan 26, 2019

Connectors

• mex-mariadb (⭐2) - MIT licensed MariaDB/MySQL Client Library for GNU Octave and Matlab.

Dec 25, 2018

Analysis

• Anemometer (⭐1.4k) - Box SQL slow query monitor.

• innodb-ruby (⭐1.8k) - A parser for InnoDB file formats, in Ruby.

• innotop (⭐798) - a 'top' clone for MySQL with many features and flexibility.

• MySQL Explain Analyzer (⭐97) - A web-based analyzer of EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON output, providing comments, scalability analysis and permalinks for saved samples.

• mysql-statsd (⭐102) - A Python daemon to collect information from MySQL and send it via StatsD to Graphite.

• pstop (⭐210) - a top-like program for MySQL, collecting, aggregating and displaying information from performance_schema.

Benchmarking

• Sysbench (⭐6.7k) - a modular, cross-platform and multi-threaded benchmark tool.

ChatOps

• Hubot MySQL ChatOps (⭐90)

Configuration

• mysql-compatibility-config (⭐94) - make MySQL configuration behave more like newer (or older) releases of MySQL.

Connectors

• go-sql-driver (⭐15k) - a lightweight and fast MySQL-Driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package.

• libAttachSQL (⭐29) - libAttachSQL is a lightweight, non-blocking C API for MySQL servers.

• PyMySQL (⭐7.8k) - MySQL database connector for Python.

• Ruby Mysql2 gem (⭐2.3k) - MySQL driver for Ruby and Rails projects.

Development

• Shift (⭐741) - An application that helps you run schema migrations on MySQL databases

GUI

• mycli (⭐12k) - A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.

• Ocelot GUI (⭐63) - GUI client for MySQL or MariaDB, including debugger.

• pspg (⭐2.7k) - provides a pager with enhanced visualization and navigation for tabular data. Originally implemented for PostgreSQL, but also supports MySQL.

HA

• replication-manager (⭐727) - a high availability solution to manage MariaDB 10.x and MySQL & Percona Server 5.7 GTID replication topologies.

Proxy

• MySQL Router - MySQL Router is part of InnoDB cluster, and is a lightweight middleware that provides transparent routing between your application and back-end MySQL Servers.

Schema

• common_schema (⭐126) - DBA's framework for MySQL, providing a function library, views library and QueryScript interpreter.

• sys (⭐829) (archived) - A collection of views, functions and procedures to help MySQL administrators get insight in to MySQL Database usage. See sys schema docs

Security

• Acra (⭐1.5k) - SQL database protection suite: strong selective encryption, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection system.

Server

• MariaDB (⭐7.2k) - Community developed fork of MySQL server.

• MySQL Server & MySQL Cluster (⭐12k) - Official Oracle's MySQL server & MySQL Cluster distribution.

• TiDB (⭐40k) - A distributed HTAP database compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Toolkits

• gh-ost (⭐13k) - GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL.

e-books

• SQL-exercise (⭐1.5k) - contains several SQL exercises, including the schema description figure, SQL code to build schema, questions and solutions in SQL. Based on wikibook SQL Exercises.