What is MySQL API?

What is the function of MySQL API?

APIs provide low-level access to MySQL resources using either the classic MySQL protocol or X Protocol. Both Connectors and the APIs enable you to connect and execute MySQL statements from another language or environment, including ODBC, Java (JDBC), C++, Python, Node. js, PHP, Perl, Ruby, and C.

Is MySQL a REST API?

MySQL Offers a REST API.

Can MySQL make API calls?

Basically you can't. And if you could (thru the use of a UDF library) you shouldn't. Mysql is a high performance db engine that you ought to respect for its core competencies. Other stakeholders and waiting for your query or transaction to wrap up, and they suffer while yours doesn't.

How does API connect to database?

Call the API from a server code, or a cloud service. Let the server code or cloud service decipher (or "Parse") the response. Use the deciphered response to create a table made out of HTML, or to place it into a database.