Introducing the MySQL 8 Document Store

© Charles Bell 2018

Charles BellIntroducing the MySQL 8 Document Storehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2725-1_5

5. X Developer API

Charles Bell¹ 

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Warsaw, Virginia, USA

 

The X Developer Application Programming Interface, or X DevAPI, is a library of classes and methods that implement a new NoSQL interface for MySQL. To be specific, the X DevAPI is designed to allow easy interaction with JSON documents and relational data. The X DevAPI has classes devoted to supporting both concepts allowing developers to use either (or both) in their applications. The X DevAPI together with the X Protocol, X Plugin, and clients written to expose the X DevAPI, forms the new MySQL 8 Document Store feature.

As we will see, there are many aspects to working with the ...