MySQL Driver v0.3.0¶

Driver Version v0.3.0 Release Date 2026-02-19 Tested With MySQL 9.4

This driver provides access to MySQL , a free and open-source relational database management system.

Installation¶

The MySQL driver can be installed with dbc :

dbc install mysql

Connecting¶

To connect, edit the uri option below to match your environment and run the following:

from adbc_driver_manager import dbapi

conn = dbapi.connect(
  driver="mysql",
  db_kwargs = {
    "uri": "root@tcp(localhost:3306)/demo"
  }
)

Note: The example above is for Python using the adbc-driver-manager package but the process will be similar for other driver managers. See adbc-quickstarts .

Connection String Format¶

Connection strings are passed with the uri option which uses the following format:

mysql://[user[:[password]]@]host[:port][/schema][?attribute1=value1&attribute2=value2...]

Examples:

mysql://localhost/mydb
mysql://user:pass@localhost:3306/mydb
mysql://user:pass@host/db?charset=utf8mb4&timeout=30s
mysql://user@(/path/to/socket.sock)/db (Unix domain socket)
mysql://user@localhost/mydb (no password)

This follows MySQL’s official URI-like connection string format . Also see MySQL Connection Parameters for the complete specification.

Components:

scheme: mysql:// (required)
user: Optional (for authentication)
password: Optional (for authentication, requires user)
host: Required (must be explicitly specified)
port: Optional (defaults to 3306)
schema: Optional (can be empty, MySQL database name)
Query params: MySQL connection attributes

Note

Reserved characters in URI elements must be URI-encoded. For example, @ becomes %40. If you include a zone ID in an IPv6 address, the % character used as the separator must be replaced with %25.

When connecting via Unix domain sockets, use the parentheses syntax to wrap the socket path: (/path/to/socket.sock).

The driver also supports the MySQL DSN format (see Go MySQL Driver documentation ), but standard URIs are recommended.

Feature & Type Support¶

Feature	Support
Bulk Ingestion	Create	✅
	Append	✅
	Create/Append	✅
	Replace	✅
	Temporary Table	❌
	Specify target catalog	❌
	Specify target schema	❌
	Non-nullable fields are marked NOT NULL	❌
Catalog (GetObjects)	depth=catalogs	✅
	depth=db_schemas	✅
	depth=tables	✅
	depth=columns (all)	✅
Get Parameter Schema	❌
Get Table Schema	✅
Prepared Statements	✅
Transactions	❌

Types¶

MySQL to Arrow¶

MySQL Type	Arrow Type
BIGINT	int64
BIT	binary
BOOLEAN	int64, int8 ⚠️ [1]
DATE	date32[day]
DATETIME	timestamp[us]
DOUBLE PRECISION	double
INT	int32
JSON	extension<arrow.json>
NUMERIC	decimal64
REAL	❌
SMALLINT	int16
TIME	time64[us]
TIMESTAMP	timestamp[us], timestamp[us] (with time zone) ⚠️ [1]
VARBINARY	binary
VARCHAR	string

Arrow to MySQL¶

Arrow Type	MySQL Type
Arrow Type	Bind	Ingest
binary	❌	VARBINARY
binary_view	❌	VARBINARY
bool	❌	BOOLEAN
date32[day]	❌	DATE
decimal128	❌	DECIMAL
double	❌	DOUBLE PRECISION
fixed_size_binary	❌	VARBINARY
float	❌
int16	❌	SMALLINT
int32	❌	INT
int64	❌	BIGINT
large_binary	❌	VARBINARY
large_string	❌	VARCHAR
string	❌	VARCHAR
string_view	❌	VARCHAR
time32[ms]	❌	TIME
time32[s]	❌	TIME
time64[ns]	❌	TIME
time64[us]	❌	TIME
timestamp[ms]	❌	DATETIME
timestamp[ms] (with time zone)	❌	TIMESTAMP
timestamp[ns]	❌	DATETIME
timestamp[ns] (with time zone)	❌	TIMESTAMP
timestamp[s]	❌	DATETIME
timestamp[s] (with time zone)	❌	TIMESTAMP
timestamp[us]	❌	DATETIME
timestamp[us] (with time zone)	❌	TIMESTAMP

Compatibility¶

This driver was tested on the following versions of MySQL:

9.4.0 (MySQL Community Server - GPL)

Previous Versions¶

To see documentation for previous versions of this driver, see the following: