Documentation

MySQL2 aims to be a drop in replacement for node-mysql.

note

If you see any API incompatibilities with node-mysql, please report via github issue.

Not only Node-MySQL2 offers better performance over node-mysql, we also support these additional features.

• Prepared Statements
• Promise Wrapper
• Authentication Switch
• More Features
• MySQL Server
• Pooling
• SSL
• MySQL Compression
• Binary Log Protocol Client

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Examples

Please check these examples for MySQL2.

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Known incompatibilities with node-mysql

• zeroFill flag is ignored in type conversion. You need to check corresponding field's zeroFill flag and convert to string manually if this is of importance to you.

• DECIMAL and NEWDECIMAL types always returned as string unless you pass this config option:

{
  decimalNumbers: true,
}

note

This option could lose precision on the number as Javascript Number is a Float!

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Other Resources

• Wire protocol documentation
• node-mysql - Most popular node.js mysql client library
• node-mariasql - Bindings to libmariasql. One of the fastest clients
• node-libmysqlclient - Bindings to libmysqlclient
• go-mysql - MySQL Go client (prepared statements, binlog protocol, server)

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Benchmarks

• https://gist.github.com/sidorares/ffe9ee9c423f763e3b6b
• npm run benchmarks
• node-mysql-benchmarks
• try to run example benchmarks on your system