Last Updated on July 10, 2021
Drizzle is a lightweight SQL Database optimised for Cloud and network applications. It is a high-performance microkernel database management system (DBMS) for scale-out applications.
Drizzle is a community-driven project based on the popular MySQL DBMS that is focused on MySQL’s original goals of ease-of-use, reliability and performance. The goal is to make Drizzle an extensible database kernel that runs extremely fast on emerging hardware.
It is designed for massive concurrency on modern multi-CPU/core architectures.
Features include:
- Emphasis on reliability.
- Fast and scalable.
- Simple design for ease of installation and management.
- Based on MySQL 6.0 source tree.
- No shipped libraries.
- POSIX compliance.
- Micro kernel design.
- Pluggable Architecture for views, stored procedures, UDFs, storage engines …
- Sharding across multiple nodes.
- Intelligent proxy.
- Multi CPU/Multi Core.
- Optimized field types.
- Efficient memory use.
- No internal ACL, uses LDAP/PAM.
- No database data formatting.
- Cleaned up make system.
- InnoDB default storage engine.
- Localized commandline tools and user notifications.
Website: launchpad.net/drizzle
Support:
Developer: Brian Aker, Mark Atwood, Lee Bieber, Patrick Galbraith, Toru Maesaka, Elliot Murphy, Jay Pipes, Stewart Smith, Monty Taylor, Padraig O’Sullivan
License: GNU GPL v2
Drizzle is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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