4. • 2008 Sun buys MySQL
• 2008 Drizzle forks from MySQL
• 2009 Oracle buys Sun
• 2010 Drizzle Developers split from Oracle
• 2011 First GA Release, Drizzle7
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5. Drizzle
• Entirely Open Source RDBMS
• C++, with a MicroKernel Design
• No Gotchas
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6. Drizzle7
(Quick Update)
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20. No Gotchas
• No NULL when you don’t want NULL
• No ALTER TABLES that fake’ it
• Real datetime (64bit), with microseconds
• IPV6
• No updates that “half complete”
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21. Authentication/
Authorization
• No Cost Authentication
• PAM, LDAP, HTTP
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22. Table Functions
• TABLE_CACHE
• TABLE_DEFINITION_CACHE
• SHOW TEMPORARY TABLES
• All new SQL compliant information_schema
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23. Data Dictionay
• Separate Information Schema for ANSI SQL
access.
• All based on Table Functions
• No Materialization
• Single Execution Path
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33. • Cuts the 30/40% hit from virtualizing
• Single instance maintenance
• Still allows for IO spread on San/NAS
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34. Hot Backup
• Supports Partial Backup
• No locking
• Single solution, point-in-time recovery in a
single solution.
• Comes with the database.
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35. http://drizzle.org
http://planetdrizzle.org
Freenode #drizzle
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