title: Most mature native Node.js MySQL driver?
body: <p>I'm using MySQL for a Rails application and would like to be able to use this database for a Node.js app (in particular Tower.js).  What is the most mature and/or performant driver available for this at the moment?</p>
  
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  <p>Due to @ryan's excellent input below, I looked a bit more into <a href="https://github.com/felixge/node-mysql" rel="noreferrer">Felix's <code>node-mysql</code></a>  There is an absolutely <strong>EXCELLENT</strong> podcast here that's I'd highly recommend listening to if you're interested in a slight history and general discussion as to the options and if <code>node-mysql</code> path may be right for you: <a href="http://ia600804.us.archive.org/3/items/NodeupEleven/NodeupEleven.mp3" rel="noreferrer">http://ia600804.us.archive.org/3/items/NodeupEleven/NodeupEleven.mp3</a></p>
  
  <p>After giving that roundtable discussion a quick listen up to that point, I'm pretty confident that this is the right path for about anyone to take right now.  Further, the other discussions that go around are interesting as a general state of database support in Node.</p>