A Lightweight SQL Database for Cloud and Web

Drizzle

Overview

 

Drizzle is a community-driven open source project that is forked from the popular MySQL database. 


The Drizzle team has removed non-essential code, re-factored the remaining code and modernized the code base moving to C++.


 


Charter

  1. Bullet A database optimized for Cloud infrastructure and Web applications

  2. Bullet Design for massive concurrency on modern multi-cpu architecture

  3. Bullet Optimize memory for increased performance and parallelism

  4. Bullet Open source, open community, open design


Scope

  1. Bullet Re-designed modular architecture providing plugins with defined APIs

  2. Bullet Simple design for ease of use and administration

  3. Bullet Reliable, ACID transactional