MySQL Reference
Validated on 4 Jul 2021 • Last edited on 5 Dec 2025
MySQL is an open source, object-relational database built with speed and reliability in mind. Its large and active developer community has created many third-party applications, tools, and libraries that expand MySQL’s functionality.
The DigitalOcean API
You can use the API to manage database clusters, database pools, replicas, and users.
The DigitalOcean Command Line Client, doctl
doctl is the command-line interface for the DigitalOcean API. It supports most of the same actions available in the API and DigitalOcean Control Panel.
doctl supports managing database clusters, database pools, replicas, and users, and more from the command line. See the doctl documentation or use doctl databases --help for more information.
The DigitalOcean MCP Server
The DigitalOcean MCP server lets you use natural language prompts to interact with DigitalOcean Managed Databases to create, resize, configure, migrate, and inspect clusters across all supported engines. All operations use argument-based input, and no resource URIs are used. The tools also support pagination, configuration management, firewall updates, user management, topic operations for Kafka, and other engine-specific settings where applicable.