22.4 Python Quick-Start Guide: MySQL Shell for Document Store
This quick-start guide provides instructions to begin prototyping document store applications interactively with MySQL Shell. The guide includes the following topics:
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Introduction to MySQL functionality, MySQL Shell, and the
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Operations to manage collections and documents.
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Operations to manage relational tables.
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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 8.4, 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.
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MySQL Shell 8.4 provides more in-depth information about MySQL Shell.
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See Installing MySQL Shell and Section 22.5, “X Plugin” for more information about the tools used in this quick-start guide.
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See Supported Languages for more information about the languages MySQL Shell supports.
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X DevAPI User Guide provides more examples of using X DevAPI to develop applications which use MySQL as a Document Store.
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A JavaScript quick-start guide is also available.