MySQL 8.0 Reference Manual Including MySQL NDB Cluster 8.0
This quick-start guide provides instructions to begin prototyping document store applications interactively with MySQL Shell. The guide includes the following topics:
Introduction to MySQL functionality, MySQL Shell, and the
world_x example schema.
Operations to manage collections and documents.
Operations to manage relational tables.
Operations that apply to documents within tables.
To follow this quick-start guide you need a MySQL server with X Plugin installed, the default in 8.0, and MySQL Shell to use as the client. MySQL Shell includes X DevAPI, implemented in both JavaScript and Python, which enables you to connect to the MySQL server instance using X Protocol and use the server as a Document Store.
MySQL Shell 8.0 provides more in-depth information about MySQL Shell.
See Installing MySQL Shell and Section 22.5, “X Plugin” for more information about the tools used in this quick-start guide.
See Supported Languages for more information about the languages MySQL Shell supports.
X DevAPI User Guide provides more examples of using X DevAPI to develop applications which use MySQL as a Document Store.
A JavaScript quick-start guide is also available.