This quick-start guide provides instructions to begin prototyping document store applications interactively with MySQL Shell. The guide includes the following topics:
Introduction to MySQL functionality, MySQL Shell, and the world_x example schema.
Operations to manage collections and documents.
Operations to manage relational tables.
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 8.0, and MySQL Shell to use as the client. MySQL Shell 8.0 provides more in-depth information about MySQL Shell. The Document Store is accessed using X DevAPI, and MySQL Shell provides this API in both JavaScript and Python.
MySQL Shell 8.0 provides more in-depth information about MySQL Shell.
See Installing MySQL Shell and Section 20.5, “X Plugin” for more information about the tools used in this quick-start guide.
X DevAPI User Guide provides more examples of using X DevAPI to develop applications which use Document Store.
A Python quick-start guide is also available.