Questions
20.6.3.1: What is “libmysqld”?
20.6.3.2: What is “libmysql”?
20.6.3.3: Does MySQL Connector/C replace any of “Native C API”, “libmysql” and “libmysqld”?
20.6.3.4: What is the difference between “Native C API”, “libmysql”, “libmysqld” and “MySQL Connector/C”?
20.6.3.5: What is “MySQL Connector/C”?
20.6.3.6: What is the “MySQL Native C API”? What are its typical benefits and use cases?
Questions and Answers
20.6.3.1: What is “libmysqld”?
libmysqld
is an embedded database server with
the same API as MySQL Connector/C. It is included with the MySQL Server
distribution.
libmysql
is the name of the library that MySQL Connector/C
provides.
20.6.3.3: Does MySQL Connector/C replace any of “Native C API”, “libmysql” and “libmysqld”?
MySQL Connector/C contains libmysql
, and implements a
native C API. It does not include libmysqld
,
which can be found with the MySQL server distribution.
20.6.3.4: What is the difference between “Native C API”, “libmysql”, “libmysqld” and “MySQL Connector/C”?
MySQL Connector/C and libmysql
are the “native C API
for MySQL”, and all three terms can be used
interchangeably. “libmysqld” is the embedded
version of the MySQL Server, and is included in the server
distribution.
20.6.3.5: What is “MySQL Connector/C”?
MySQL Connector/C is a standalone distribution of the
libmysql
library, which was previously only
available as part of the MySQL Server distribution. The version
of libmysql
included with MySQL Connector/C and the
version bundled with the server are functionally equivalent, but
the cross-platform build system for MySQL Connector/C uses CMake.
20.6.3.6: What is the “MySQL Native C API”? What are its typical benefits and use cases?
MySQL Connector/C, also known as libmysql
, or MySQL Native
C API, is a standalone, C-based API and library that you can use
in C applications to connect with the MySQL Server. It
implements the same MySQL client API that has been in use for a
decade.
It is also used as the foundation for drivers for standard database APIs such as ODBC, Perl's DBI, and Python's DB API.
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