aiomysql is a pure-Python MySQL/MariaDB client library for asyncio. It is effectively a port of PyMySQL's blocking driver with async I/O, plus an optional SQLAlchemy integration layer ported from aiopg. The primary programmatic entry points are `aiomysql.connect()` and `aiomysql.create_pool()`, which produce `Connection` and `Pool` objects used through `connection.cursor()`, `cursor.execute()`, and async context managers. A secondary entry point is `aiomysql.sa.create_engine()`, which wraps async pools with a SQLAlchemy engine/dialect facade for expression-based queries. The library implements MySQL protocol packet handling, authentication plugins, TLS, `LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE`, server-side cursors, and result-set decoding. It has no web endpoints, CLI, or data pipelines; it is a dependency library, not an end-user application.