Drizzle – database optimized for Cloud and Net applications

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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