Which MySQL connector python library works best with Databricks?

Question

I tried establishing a connection to an external MySQL Database from a Databricks Notebook and the only library that established a successful connection was mysql-connector-python.
Sqlalchemy and pymysql did not work.

Is there a library that works best in Databricks? And why ?

Answer 1

Hello @Admin (Zoe Fleischer) ,

Thanks for the question and using MS Q&A platform.

There are various ways to connect to a MySQL database in Spark. The below image summarizes some of common approaches to connect to MySQL using Python as programming language.

Note: For python environment - it's recommended to use mysql-connector-python library.

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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