MySQL¶
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MySQL¶
- URL
- license
GPLv2
- platforms
Unix, win32, win64, MacOS X, i5/OS
Pros¶
Easy to install and administer
Support for many SQL Features (v5.0 and up):
Good compliance with SQL standards
Foreign Keys (using InnoDB)
Stored Routines
Views
Triggers
Subqueries (as of v4.1)
Partitioning (as of v5.1)
ACID compliant (InnoDB and NDB storage engines)
Character set support
Built-in Replication
Many administration tools from third parties
Widely deployed
Regarded as being fast
Modular storage engines and interesting clustering features
Cons¶
Early versions (v4.1 and earlier) have the reputation for only basic SQL support (entry-level SQL 92) and deviations from the standards. Many interesting features (views, triggers,..) are included in the latest version (5 and above), but are missing in prior versions. Check SQL Modes for making MySQL more strict.
Some gotchas for MySQL v4.1 and earlier.
DB API 2.0 Drivers¶
MySQL for Python¶
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- License
GNU General Public License (GPL), Python License (CNRI Python License), Zope Public License
- Platforms
OS Independent
- Python versions
2.3 - 2.6
- PyPI
MySQL on-line documentation, additional forums (maintainer does not currently read these)
mysqlclient¶
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- License
GPL
- Platforms
OS Independent
- Python versions
Python 2.7 and 3.4+
- PyPI
mysqlclient is a fork of MySQL-python. It adds Python 3 support and fixed many bugs. It is the MySQL library that is recommended by the Django documentation.
PyMySQL¶
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- License
MIT
- Platforms
OS Independent, CPython 2.x and 3.x, PyPy, Jython, IronPython
- Python versions
2.4 - 3.2
- PyPI
Pure-Python focused on simplicity and compatibility
Virtually 100% compatible with MySQLdb
Good performance
mxODBC¶
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- License
eGenix Commercial License
- Platforms
Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX
- Python versions
2.4 - 2.7
- PyPI
mxODBC is compatible with the MySQL ODBC driver on Windows and Unix.
pyodbc¶
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- License
MIT
- Platforms
Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, Any (source provided)
- Python versions
2.4+
- PyPI
Actively maintained Open Source project.
Precompiled binaries are available for Windows. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Centos, and Fedora have precompiled RPMs available in their Extras repositories.
MySQL Connector/Python¶
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- License
GNU GPL v2 with FOSS License Exception
- Platforms
Any (presumably)
- Python versions
v2.6, v2.7 and Python v3.1 to 3.3 (See version overview)
- PyPI
??
Implements the Python DB API 2.0 (PEP 249).
Pure Python implementation of the MySQL protocol.
Actively developed and maintained by Oracle.
Includes Django database backend.
mypysql¶
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- License
GNU GPL v3+
- Platforms
Any (presumably)
- Python versions
3
- PyPI
??
This module provides (yet) incomplete PEP 249 functionality
C implementation of MySQL database connector
A majority of the commands are implemented
Still experimental but actively developed
PyPyODBC (Pure Python ODBC)¶
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- License
MIT
- Platforms
Windows, Linux
- Python versions
2.4 - 3.3
- PyPI
One pure Python script, runs on CPython / IronPython / PyPy , Version 3.3 / 3.2 / 3.1 / 2.4 / 2.5 / 2.6 / 2.7 , Win / Linux , 32 / 64 bit.
Similar usage as pyodbc ( can be seen as a re-implementation of pyodbc in pure Python ).
Simple - the whole module is implemented in a single python script with less than 3000 lines.
mxODBC Connect¶
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- License
eGenix Commercial License 1.3.0
- Platforms
Client: all Python platforms; Server: Windows, Linux
- Python versions
2.5 - 2.7
- PyPI
mxODBC Connect is a commercial client-server product that allows connecting Python to ODBC compatible databases running on remote servers without requiring an ODBC driver on the client side. The product uses mxODBC on the server side and provides a highly portable Python library for the client side. As such it supports all database backend that mxODBC supports, but allows connecting to these from many different Python-supported platforms.
mxODBC Connect supports asynchronous query execution via the popular gevent package, provides secure certificate based authentication, SSL encrypted database connections, comes with full support for stored procedures, multiple result sets, Unicode, a common interface on all platforms and implements many other useful features.
mxODBC Connect Server is compatible with the MySQL ODBC drivers.