By now you’ve read Mike Frank’s excellent introduction to the MySQL 8.0 release and it’s Document Store.  In that post Mike laid out the benefits of the new Document Store model and briefly outlined the different components involved.  While it’s fair to consider the Document Store as the first pillar of the new MySQL 8 Document story, we must identify the X DevAPI to be the second.  The post covers our motivation, goals, and overall design principles of this new API.

Motivation

Most of our connectors have not implemented their own API.  Rather, most of them implement externally defined interfaces.   Examples include our Connector/J that implements the JDBC standard, Connector/Net that implements the ADO.Net standard, and our Connector/ODBC.  None of these standards work well for a document-oriented database.  In …

As you may have heard, MySQL 8.0 is now officially GA, and it comes with a bunch of additional goodies. Among those is the brand new Connector/Node.js, which is the official MySQL driver for Node.js and, currently, the only one with support for the latest server versions and features (such as the MySQL document store).

Here’s a rundown of what’s available:

• Out-of-the box support for MySQL 8.0
• Document-store API as a first-class citizen
• TLS/SSL and SHA256 authentication
• Fluent API with support for flexible parameters
• Semantic methods to encode common CRUD operations
• Modern Node.js asynchronous interface based on Promises
• Abstractions for common database development tasks
• Transactions, savepoints and row locking

MySQL 8.0

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The MySQL Connector/Python Team is pleased to announce MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.11, the first GA 8.0 release series of the official MySQL driver for Python. This release introduces the first Python driver that adds full MySQL 8.0 support.

Document Store

MySQL 8.0 includes many improvements and new features, with Document Store being the biggest.

MySQL Document Store is schema-less with a flexible data structure storage system for documents. This removes the requirement for schema design, normalization, foreign keys, constrains, and data types.

The Document Store is accessible by the X DevAPI, an API that introduces a new modern and easy-to-learn way to …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Net 8.0.11 is the first general availability release of
MySQL Connector/Net to add support for the new X DevAPI. The X DevAPI
enables application developers to write code that combines the strengths
of the relational and document models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax
that does not assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/index.html. For more
information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in Connector/Net, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-net.

Please note that the X DevAPI requires at least MySQL Server version
5.7.12 or higher …

General information about MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0:

MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0 is a successor of the Connector/ODBC 5.3 line.
The Connector/ODBC driver 8.0 becomes available starting from the version 8.0.11.

Where is 8.0.10? The family of MySQL products is growing and with so many products and different versions it is easy to get confused about functionality and product compatibility. Therefore, we decided to unify the versioning and synchronize the version numbers across all MySQL products. The current GA version of MySQL Server is 8.0.11 and the family of MySQL Connectors including Connector/ODBC has been aligned with the new versioning model and became 8.0.11 too. This will ensure that Connector/ODBC 8.0.11 can work with MySQL Server 8.0.11.

Among bug fixes and internal improvements the Connector/ODBC 8.0.11 received the support for a new authentication methods introduced in MySQL Server 8.0. These new …

We are proud to announce that with version 8.0.11 the new MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0 series becomes GA! Connector/C++ 8.0 is your gateway to the new exciting features of MySQL Server 8.0 such as MySQL Document Store. It also lets you perform your usual database tasks in a simpler and more powerful way using new, modern APIs that bring to you the full advantage of modern C++ programming language.

The 8.0 series is a true milestone in the development of Connector/C++. We have not only added new APIs but also completely re-implemented the connector to create good foundation for future innovation and improvements.The new implementation of Connector/C++ is based entirely on the new X Protocol of MySQL Server 8.0 and is highly modular to allow rapid development of new features. For the first time we aligned our APIs with other MySQL connectors. Also, for the …

Members of the .NET and MySQL communities and anyone interested in the subject, we are glad to announce the release of Connector/NET 8.0.11. This is the first GA release in the 8.0 series and it comes with full support for MySQL 8.0 (also now a GA) including its main feature… the MySQL Document Store!

What is new in MySQL 8.0?

X Protocol / X Plugin

The X Protocol is a new, highly extensible protocol optimized for SQL and CRUD API operations. It is based on the popular open source protocol definition language and provides a common interface for connectors to communicate with MySQL server through the …

This is exciting news: MySQL 8.0 is officially GA!

This time around we do not only offer you a new MySQL Server full of exciting new features, but also a brand new toolset that let you make the most out of MySQL, including the now GA Java database driver, MySQL Connector/J 8.0.11!

This story is about Connector/J but before even I get started I must say a few words about the new features that conducted the development of this new driver. If you prefer, you can jump directly to the Connector/J 8.0 topic below.

What’s new in MySQL Server 8.0? There’s a new Client/Server communication protocol in MySQL: the X Protocol

The X Protocol introduced in MySQL 8.0 series is the backbone for the document-oriented paradigm in the MySQL ecosystem. The new X Protocol and the old MySQL Client/Server Protocol are both available …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.11 is the first GA release version of the
MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0 series.

Connector/C++ 8.0 can be used to access MySQL implementing Document
Store or in a traditional way, using SQL queries. It allows writing
both C++ applications using X DevAPI or plain C applications using
XAPI.

To learn more about how to write applications using X DevAPI, see
“X DevAPI User Guide”

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/

and “X DevAPI Reference” at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-cpp/devapi_ref.html

For more information about using plain C XAPI see “XAPI Reference” at

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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0.11 is the first GA version of the MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0 series, the ODBC driver for the MySQL database management system.

The available downloads include both a Unicode driver and an ANSI driver based on the same modern codebase. Please select the driver type you need based on the type of your application – Unicode or ANSI. Server-side prepared statements are enabled by default. It is suitable for use with any MySQL server version from 5.5.

This release of the MySQL ODBC driver is conforming to the ODBC 3.8 specification. It contains implementations of key 3.8 features, including self-identification as a ODBC 3.8 driver, streaming of output parameters (supported for binary types only), and support of the SQL_ATTR_RESET_CONNECTION connection attribute (for the Unicode driver only).

Also, Connector/ODBC 8.0 has a GTK+-based setup library providing a GUI DSN setup …