There will be a MySQL proxy enabling connections to MaxDB using the MySQL protocol. This makes it possible to use MySQL client programs for MaxDB, such as the mysql command-line user interface, the mysqldump dump utility, or the mysqlimport import program. Using mysqldump, you can easily dump data from one database system and export (or even pipe) those data to the other database system.

Replication between MySQL and MaxDB will be supported in both directions. That is, either MySQL or MaxDB can be used as the master replication server. The long-range plan is to converge and extend the replication syntax so that both database systems understand the same syntax. See the section called “Introduction to Replication”.