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+---
+title: "Bitpoke MySQL Operator"
+link: "https://github.com/bitpoke/mysql-operator"
+github: "bitpoke/mysql-operator"
+description: "A Kubernetes operator, built on Percona Server for MySQL and Orchestrator, for deploying and running highly available MySQL clusters with scheduled backups and point-in-time recovery."
+subcategories:
+  - Replication & High Availability
+  - DevOps & Deployment
+compatibility:
+  - Percona Server
+deployment:
+  - Kubernetes
+pricing:
+  - Open Source
+images:
+  - logo.png
+---
+
+Bitpoke's MySQL Operator manages the resources needed to run a highly available MySQL cluster on Kubernetes: a cluster-per-service deployment model, scheduled and on-demand backups with point-in-time recovery, and cloning both within and across clusters. It installs via a Helm chart that deploys the controller together with an [Orchestrator](https://github.com/openark/orchestrator) cluster for replication topology management and failover.
+
+It's built on Percona Server for MySQL (5.7 and 8.0) rather than stock MySQL or MariaDB — the README cites Percona's backup locks, monitoring, and serviceability improvements (such as the utility user) as the reason, while keeping the deployment a drop-in replacement. The operator was originally built by [Bitpoke](https://www.bitpoke.io/) to run its own cloud-native WordPress hosting and was later open-sourced; it's released under the Apache 2.0 license, with Bitpoke also offering paid commercial support for it separately.
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+---
+title: "MySQL MCP Server (DesignComputer)"
+link: "https://github.com/designcomputer/mysql_mcp_server"
+github: "designcomputer/mysql_mcp_server"
+description: "A Model Context Protocol server that gives AI applications controlled, auditable access to MySQL databases — listing tables as resources, running SQL queries, and sampling schema and data through a configurable, allowlist-guarded interface."
+subcategories:
+  - AI & Ecosystem Skills
+compatibility:
+  - MySQL
+pricing:
+  - Open Source
+images:
+  - logo.png
+---
+
+This MCP server, distributed as the `mysql-mcp-server` package on PyPI, lets MCP clients such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and other AI hosts explore and query a MySQL database through a controlled interface rather than a raw connection string. It exposes tables as MCP resources, and tools for executing SQL (`execute_sql`), reading schema information (`get_schema_info`), and sampling table data (`get_table_sample`), alongside prompts for guided database exploration. It supports both stdio and Streamable HTTP (SSE) transports, SSH tunneling for remote databases, and an optional multi-database mode.
+
+Database and table identifiers are checked against an allowlist of safe characters before use, credentials and SSH keys are masked in logs, and the README recommends connecting with a dedicated, minimally privileged MySQL user — it notes the SSE transport has no built-in authentication and should sit behind an authenticating reverse proxy if exposed beyond localhost. The project is MIT-licensed and maintained by Dana K. Williams.
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+---
+title: "MySqlConnector"
+link: "https://mysqlconnector.net/"
+github: "mysql-net/MySqlConnector"
+description: "A clean-room ADO.NET data provider for MySQL, MariaDB, and other compatible servers — an open-source, fully async alternative to Oracle's official MySQL Connector/NET."
+subcategories:
+  - Connectors & Drivers
+compatibility:
+  - MySQL
+  - MariaDB
+pricing:
+  - Open Source
+images:
+  - logo.png
+---
+
+MySqlConnector implements the ADO.NET classes needed to query and update databases from managed .NET code — `DbConnection`, `DbCommand`, `DbDataReader`, and `DbTransaction` — against MySQL 5.5 and newer and MariaDB 10.x and newer. It's a clean-room reimplementation of the MySQL wire protocol, not a fork of Oracle's Connector/NET, and the project's own benchmark (MySqlConnector 2.3.1 vs. MySql.Data 8.2.0 against Azure Database for MySQL 8.0.34 over TLS 1.2) is cited as the reason many .NET teams switch to it.
+
+It implements async support throughout the ADO.NET surface, including newer APIs such as `DbBatch` (.NET 6.0) and `DbDataSource` (.NET 7.0), and fixes a long list of bugs that remain outstanding in Connector/NET. Distributed as the `MySqlConnector` NuGet package, it's MIT-licensed and free to use with commercial software — unlike Connector/NET, which can require a separate commercial license from Oracle for some commercial use cases.