What protocol does MySQL use?

Does MySQL use TCP or UDP?

Is the MySQL port 3306 TCP or UDP? The default MySQL port is TCP (Transmission Control Protocol). The TCP protocol is the most frequently used protocol on the Internet. In contrast to the UDP protocol, the data is checked for correctness when sending and receiving via the TCP protocol.

Does MySQL use HTTP?

The HTTP Plugin for MySQL adds HTTP(S) interfaces to MySQL. Clients can use the HTTP respectively HTTPS (SSL) protocol to query data stored in MySQL. The query language is SQL but other, simpler interfaces exist. All data is serialized as JSON.

Does MySQL use TCP?

The default MySQL port 3306 is TCP (Transmission Control Protocol).

Does MySQL use TLS?

MySQL supports encrypted connections between clients and the server using the TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol. TLS is sometimes referred to as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) but MySQL does not actually use the SSL protocol for encrypted connections because its encryption is weak (see Section 6.3.