I am looking to do some work around mysql and node.js and have found a few different modules out there but I cannot get a good bead on their stability/maturity. I know each auth
I'm the author of node-mysql-native driver, from my point of view the differences are
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As of 11/07/2013
I went through a similar search and ended up settling on node-mysql. I like it's simplicity, the fact that it's pure js, and that it's well supported. It was slower in tests that I did than some of the mixed modules (those that used non-js libs), but I did a minor patch that helped considerably with that for my cases:
https://github.com/geochap/node-mysql