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A Brief History of Drizzle
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1838.2.1
by Brian Aker
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Drizzle came into being for both social and technical reasons. |
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The Drizzle project began in 2008 when Brian Aker forked it from |
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MySQL, following Sun Microsystems' acquisition of MySQL. The Drizzle |
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project was announced in 2008 at the O'Reilly OSCOn Open Source |
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Conference. |
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In terms of technical goals, Drizzle is based on a micro-kernel design |
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that aims to be as pluggable as possible. Anyone should be able to |
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quickly extend the database for their database needs. Drizzle has been |
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designed for modern architectures and deployments. Drizzle does not |
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shy away from breaking with the past, many of the MySQL "Gotchas" |
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(features that work as advertised but not necessarily as expected) |
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have been removed. |
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Drizzle is open source software, designed in an organic manner by |
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developers that span different companies. The development process has |
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been geared to be more similar to the Linux Kernel where no single |
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company owns the source code, or provides all of the developers. In |
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stark difference to MySQL, the goal is to be as inclusive as possible |
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and provide stable releases. The social charter of Drizzle encourages |
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diversity and prizes respectful dialogue between all participating |
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parties. |
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Drizzle today is the most active fork of the MySQL server. At the time |
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of writing, core developers span five companies, with as many, and |
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sometimes more then, 30+ developers participating each month. Drizzle |
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provides releases every other week and is the most well-tested |
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database in the MySQL family tree. |
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More narrative on the project can be found on |
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`Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle_(database_server)>`_ |