Drizzle: a lighter MySQL

So what is Drizzle?

* Drizzle is what MySQL would be with a more interactive community involvement in the design of the software itself, and had targeted website deployments.

* Drizzle is a version of MySQL that is driven by Brian and the community, attempting to solve practical problems that a large group of MySQL users are facing.

* Drizzle is a smaller, slimmer and (hopefully) faster version of MySQL; Features that the broad Drizzle community does not want or need are now removed or in the process of being removed (This includes stored procedures, views, triggers, grants, some non-pluggable storage engines and more).

* Drizzle is the 3rd fork of MySQL server code base, but is the one that has (for now) the most developers working on it. The two other forks are:
o ProvenScaling’s fork on mirror.provenscaling.com provided by Jeremy Cole. You should read Peter Zaitsev’s blog about this.

o The MySQL-5.1-maria fork, provided by the Maria team lead by me. (Brian did beat us when it comes to opening up the tree for outside development; We are still at least a month away from doing this).

* You can find out more about Drizzle at Brian’s blog at http://krow.livejournal.com/.

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