Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web

Incon writes "Builder AU reports that Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Drizzle will have a micro-kernel architecture with code being removed from the Drizzle core and moved through interfaces into modules. Aker has already selected particular functionality for removal: modes, views, triggers, prepared statements, stored procedures, query cache, data conversion inserts, access control lists and some data types."

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Re:anotherwards, MySQL 3.x...

[TheRaven64]

Reading the feature list, it sounds like they've now got a slow clone of SQLite with a more restrictive license. Good to see MySQL are innovating again. I think I preferred it when they had a buggy, feature-incomplete clone of PostgreSQL with a more restrictive license...