aqtinstall VS MySqlConnector

Compare aqtinstall vs MySqlConnector and see what are their differences.

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aqtinstall

Posts with mentions or reviews of aqtinstall. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.
  • Adventures in Debian's Qt Land
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2023
    I mostly disagree. Like you said, Qt is the best native GUI toolkit available today. And that is a hard achievement. There are many tradeoffs (some you pointed out) but the open source community seems to find a way around those limitations. There are thousands of open source libraries you can plug-in into your Qt app to overcome many of its limitations (although some remain, like how can't we still not easily change caret/cursor color of QTextEdit??).

    Unlike you, I like the direction where Qt is taking. I think QML and Qt Quick are great. I just implemented a feature in my note-taking app that turns Markdown text into Kanban board using QML and the experience has been great (https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes/pull/574). I'm planning to continue transition from QWidgets to QML/Qt Quick.

    I do worry of the continuous friction with open source development and hate the online installers as well. I can recommend this useful tool https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall that allows you to easily download prebuilt Qt binaries. I hope they can revert their approach on that.

  • KDE Plasma development switches to Qt 6 tomorrow
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2023
    https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall will help you with that.
  • Getting “QT with MinGW support”?
    2 projects | /r/QtFramework | 5 Oct 2022
  • Qt 6.4 Released
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2022
    you can install it from vcpkg or conan (or https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall if you really want the official Qt binaries) and it'll be much less
  • Trouble Building Qt6/5
    2 projects | /r/QtFramework | 17 Sep 2022
    Is there any particular reason why you want to build Qt yourself? This is usually quite painful and requires a lot of extra stuff (see https://wiki.qt.io/Building\_Qt\_6\_from\_Git) . If you just want to avoid the (horrible) official installer and a Qt account, you can use aqtinstaller to fetch everything you need: https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall
  • Please do not use Python for tooling
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2022
    Just recently, I had to recompile a (singleplayer) save game editor. So basically a GUI that does some clever hex editing.

    It was written in C++ using Qt.

    Have you ever tried compiling a Qt program on Windows? It involves signing up for an official Qt developer account to even install qmake.

    To the point I had to use an unofficial Qt installer CLI app (aqtinstall) [0] to even install the toolchain to build this little shitty app... which still relied on having several Qt .dll files in the same directory as the .exe to work.

    Have you clicked on [0] yet? Well, then guess what programming language aqtinstall uses.

    [0] https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall

  • Qt6 and Docker
    2 projects | /r/QtFramework | 6 Jun 2022
    No need for credentials with the aqtinstaller. https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall
  • Performance Improvements in .NET 6
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2021
    I'll be honest I don't think that doing C++ on windows is a good idea. The language needs to do a lot of file access for includes, and on NTFS those are super slow, my builds on Linux are something like 1/3 of the time on windows (building with the same commit of clang 12 and lld, same computer, same SSD).

    But if you don't want to install a Linux partition, then just use aqt to install Qt: https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall

    You want win64_msvc2019_64 as a platform.

    Way too often I see everyone clicking on everything in the installer which amounts to a 30gb download, but for the immense majority of Qt apps you just want the core libs for your platform which is like a couple hundred megabytes (and even then in practice you're going to use only a small part of those unless you have uncommon needs such as serial port, modbus or NFC communication, XML parsing, ...)

  • GUI?
    8 projects | /r/cpp | 29 Jul 2021
    For installing on a docker container it is a far better idea to use Conan or https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall
  • How do I install Qt5 without an account?
    2 projects | /r/QtFramework | 16 Apr 2021
    The reason is that the Qt Company sucks. You can use https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall or one of the windows package managers like vcpkg https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.

MySqlConnector

Posts with mentions or reviews of MySqlConnector. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-06.
  • Faster MySQL with HTTP/3
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2023
    MySqlConnector (the most popular .NET library for MySQL, and the one that I authored) has supported protocol compression for many years: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/31.
  • Implementing the MySQL server protocol for fun and profit
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2022
    > I kept technical notes about the protocol, to serve as a future reference for myself and for other developers.

    As someone who's written a MySQL client (in C#: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector), I'd be very interested to see your notes. Are they available anywhere, or were they the confidential IP of your client?

    > Unsurprisingly, bugs were uncovered every time a new client was added.

    I've faced the same thing, from a client perspective. Every time a new server is tested (MySQL, MariaDB, Amazon Aurora, Azure Database for MySQL, etc.), I find slightly different interpretations of the protocol and have to accommodate them.

  • Ask HN: Examples of Top C# Code?
    29 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2022
    I have had the pleasure of contributing to a couple different networked drivers with very talented maintainers that I like to use as references.

    One supports a wide array of Framework versions and has both Sync and Async I/O, as it must to implement the ADO.NET database driver interfaces. Reading the internals really highlight the way that .NET has evolved over the years and what must be done in each target version to maximize performance:

    https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector

    The other supports .NET 6 only with Async I/O only. This support policy seems to be the way that "modern" .NET development is headed, as .NET 6 will be the floor for LTS .NET (formerly .NET Core) releases in a few months. Async APIs only greatly simplify development, and make it simpler to remain performant when targeting WASM.

    https://github.com/Cysharp/AlterNats

    As a library maintainer, one thing I often wonder about is how to indicate .NET version support. One option would be for the major version of the library to track the major version of .NET, so if I were to publish a new library today then start with .NET 6 support and start with version number 6.0.0 instead of 1.0.0. This would limit the library to only making breaking changes when the .NET version changes though.

  • Need some help/direction reading CSV into MySQL without duplication
    3 projects | /r/csharp | 30 Aug 2022
    Use the MySqlConnector to load the data into a temp table using the bulk copy API. Both of my libraries implement the IDataReader (DbDataReader) interface, so they can be directly used with the bulk copy APIs. Then insert into the final table from the temp table filtering out rows that are already in the final table.
  • Finding an Authorization Bypass on My Own Website
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2022
  • Performance Improvements in .NET 6
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2021
    I'm the author of what you might call the "new" MySQL ADO.NET library: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector

    I agree with your impression that developers of the other library don't seem to be "plugged in to" the .NET ecosystem. As an independent developer (not affiliated with Oracle or Microsoft), I've been able to influence GitHub PRs that shape the ADO.NET API for .NET 6.0, just by showing up and contributing; I haven't seen anyone from the Oracle MySQL team participating. Meanwhile, they violate basic principles of the .NET Framework Design Guidelines that have been around for over a decade (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/design-guid...), which makes their library feel alien to a .NET programmer (regardless of the quality issues it might have).

  • MongoDB C# Driver Vs. MongoDB.Entities Benchmark
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 18 Jun 2021
    e.g. this community effort of a MySQL ADO.NET provider is miles ahead of Oracle's driver.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing aqtinstall and MySqlConnector you can also consider the following projects:

Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql - Entity Framework Core provider for MySQL and MariaDB built on top of MySqlConnector

Avalonia.FuncUI - Develop cross-plattform GUI Applications using F# and Avalonia!

openiddict-core - Flexible and versatile OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect stack for .NET

archinstall_gui - Guided Arch Linux graphical installer

Hot Chocolate - Welcome to the home of the Hot Chocolate GraphQL server for .NET, the Strawberry Shake GraphQL client for .NET and Banana Cake Pop the awesome Monaco based GraphQL IDE.

Crow - A Fast and Easy to use microframework for the web.

Marten - .NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL

GuiLite - ✔️The smallest header-only GUI library(4 KLOC) for all platforms

IdentityServer - The most flexible and standards-compliant OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.x framework for ASP.NET Core

qt-minimalistic-builds - Precompiled x64 Qt 5/6 library in minimalistic configuration for Windows.