Dec 13, 2019 · Most basically, an SQL database will [probably ...] be "server side," while your JavaScript hash-table will be "client side." Does the data need to be persisted from one request to the next, and between separate invocations of the JavaScript program?

"MySQL2 is mostly API compatible with mysqljs and supports majority of features. MySQL2 also offers these additional features. Only for the first two features is better: Faster and Secure. Pooling is also better --> faster as well. But the normal mysql package has pooling also.

Once you have MySQL up and running on your computer, you can access it by using Node.js. To access a MySQL database with Node.js, you need a MySQL driver. This tutorial will use the "mysql" module, downloaded from NPM.

Jun 11, 2010 · If you want to connect to a MySQL database using JavaScript, you can use Node.js and a library called mysql. You can create queries, and get results as an array of registers. If you want to try it, you can use my project generator to create a backend and choose MySQL as the database to connect.

A stored function or stored procedure written in JavaScript is created, invoked, and maintained in much the same fashion as one written in SQL, subject to the differences listed here:

Dec 15, 2023 · MySQL is introducing support for JavaScript stored programs. Users can now express rich procedural logic inside the database. The JavaScript runtime is integrated via GraalVM, where the user can use all GraalVM’s Enterprise Edition (EE) features such as compiler optimizations, performance, and security features at no additional cost.

JavaScript stored programs can be used together with other user-created and MySQL-native stored programs (subject to limitations described elsewhere in this section), as well as with MySQL system and user variables.

Jul 19, 2024 · Recently MySQL added the ability to write Stored Programs in JavaScript. This allows developers to leverage JavaScript capabilities for complex data processing and business logic within the database server.

In this webinar, we’ll introduce MySQL's support for JavaScript in stored programs and guide you through creating stored procedures, functions, and triggers using JavaScript. Plus, you’ll discover the power of JavaScript libraries and learn how to seamlessly integrate external libraries to further expand your MySQL capabilities.

The approach of writing code in a type safe language and compiling it to JavaScript is actually a good solution. JavaScript as a runtime platform doesn’t have the same limitations as JavaScript as a development platform. I predict this approach …