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MySQL and Drizzle

Today Brian launched Drizzle, something he’s been working on for a number of weeks now, together with some other Sun/MySQL people and quite a few active MySQL community members. I scribbled some quick info and my own perspective on About Drizzle, with links to the various currently available resources.

I think it’s an interesting and worthwhile development, and I understand it has the okidoki from inside Sun; Monty also noted this. We’ll have to see how that goes though. It amounts to an internal fork, doesn’t it… Drizzle is not directly a MySQL replacement, but it does kinda wipe the floor with MySQL’s current development process, roadmap, licensing and business model. I do commend Sun on allowing a project such as this to exist within.

If you’re a coder, do get involved. Grab the bzr tree, read the FAQ, and get in with the refactoring effort. I’ve been perusing the tree for a bit now, and having previous experience with the MySQL tree, I find it much easier to find things now that some of the fluff is gone. This should make other things easier as well… development and bug fixing, build process. It’s a good exercise.

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