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Notable MySQL Differences
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Drizzle was forked from the (now defunct) MySQL 6.0 tree. Since then there
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have been a lot of changes. Some areas are similar, others unrecognisable.
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This section aims to explore some of the notable differences between MySQL
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This section was originally adapted from the Drizzle Wiki.
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* There is no embedded server. The Drizzle Server is not loadable as a shared
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* Drizzle is optimized for massively concurrent environments. If we have the
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choice of improving performance for 1024 simultaneous connections to the
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detriment of performance with only 64 connections, we will take that choice.
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* Designed for modern POSIX systems
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* Microsoft Windows is not a supported platform (neither is HP-UX or IRIX).
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* No timezones. Everything is UTC.
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* No scripts/mysql_install_db or similar. A "just works" installation
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mentality without administrative overhead.
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* No system database that needs upgrading between versions.
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* Drizzle can listen on the Drizzle port (4427) and/or MySQL port (3306)
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and speak the respective protocols.
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Drizzle is designed around the concept of being a micro-kernel. There should
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be a small core of the server with most functionality being provided through
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small, efficient and hard to misuse plugin interfaces. The goal is a small,
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light weight kernel which is easy to maintain, understand and extend.
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Drizzle is written in C++ making use of the Standard Template Library (STL)
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and Boost. Only where performance or correctness proves to be inadequate will
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we consider rolling our own, and our preference is to fix the upstream library
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Pluggable network protocols allow Drizzle to speak one (or more) of several
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protocols. Currently we support the MySQL protocol (compatible with existing
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MySQL client libraries) and the Drizzle protocol which is still under
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development but aims for several important differences:
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* Client sends first packet instead of server
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* multi statement support (without using a semicolon to separate them)
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* room for expansion to include NoSQL type commands inline with SQL.
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There is also a console plugin that instead of providing access over a network
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socket, allows access from the current tty.
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Existing plugin APIs inherited from MySQL have been reworked.
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* User Defined Functions (UDFs) now follow the same API as within the
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server instead of a different C API. This means that UDFs are on the
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exact same level as builtin functions.
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* Storage Engine API has had some parts extensively reworked, especially
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around transactions and DDL.
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* Logging is now pluggable
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* Authentication is pluggable
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* Replication is pluggable
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* INFORMATION_SCHEMA plugins have been replaced by the function_engine, which
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is a lot more space and time efficient.
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* Network protocols are pluggable
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* Scheduler is pluggable (multi_thread, pool_of_threads etc)
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* Plugin points for manipulating rows before/after operations: used for
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replication and the PBMS Blob Streaming plugin.
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Drizzle does not currently have any plugins implement stored procedures. We
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viewed the implementation in MySQL to be non-optimal, bloating the parser
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and only supporting one language (SQL2003 stored procedures) which was not
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Fundamentally, stored procedures usually are not the correct architectural
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decision for applications that need to scale. Pushing more computation down
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into the database (which is the trickiest layer to scale) isn't a good idea.
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We do recognise that the ability to reduce the time row locks are held
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by using stored procedures is valuable, but think the same advantage can
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be gotten with improved batching of commands over the wire instead of adding
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administering stored procedures to the list of things that can go wrong in
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admisistering the database.
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Drizzle does not currently have any plugin that provides SQL triggers. We
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have some hooks for callbacks inside the server so that plugins can hook
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into points that triggers could.
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SQL Views are not currently supported in Drizzle. We believe they should be
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implemented via a query rewrite plugin. See the `Query Rewrite Blueprint <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/drizzle/+spec/query-rewrite>`_ on launchpad.
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The INFORMATION_SCHEMA in Drizzle is strictly ANSI compliant. If you write
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a query to any of the tables in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA in Drizzle, you can
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directly run these on any other ANSI compliant system.
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For information that does not fit into the standard, there is also the
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DATA_DICTIONARY schema. Use of tables in DATA_DICTIONARY is non-portable.
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This allows developers to easily know if the query is portable or not.
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Authentication, Authorization and Access
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Plugins. Currently there are PAM and HTTP AUTH plugins for authentication.
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Through the PAM plugin, you can use any PAM module (such as LDAP).
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We've stopped the confusion: -p means port and -P means password.
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No gotcha of using the unix socket when localhost is specified and then
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connecting you to the wrong database server.
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There is no drizzleadmin command.
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* MERGE storage engine has been removed
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* FEDERATED storage engine has been removed (all current development is
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focused on FederatedX, so having FEDERATED made no sense).
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* CSV engine is now for temporary tables only. See the filesystem_engine for
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the future of reading files as database tables.
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* MyISAM is for temporary tables only.
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* ARCHIVE is fully supported
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There are no FRM files in Drizzle. Engines now own their own metadata.
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Some choose to still store these in files on disk. These are now in a
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documented file format (using the google protobuf library).
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Several SHOW commands have been removed, replaced with INFORMATION_SCHEMA
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or DATA_DICTIONARY views. All SHOW commands are aliases to INFORMATION_SCHEMA
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queries. Our INFORMATION_SCHEMA implementation does not have the drawbacks
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of the MySQL implementation.
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* SHOW ENGINES: use DATA_DICTIONARY
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* ALTER TABLE UPGRADE
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Bit operators: &&, >>, <<, ~, ^, |, &
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* There is no requirement for a 'mysql' schema.
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* There is no SET datatype, use ENUM.
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* There is no SET NAMES command, UTF-8 by default
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* There is no CHARSET or CHARACTER SET commands, everything defaults to UTF8
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* There is no TIME type, use DATETIME or INT.
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* There is no TINYINT, SMALLINT or MEDIUMINT. Integer operations have been optimized around 32 and 64 bit integers.
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* There are no TINYBLOB, MEDIUMBLOB and LONGBLOB datatypes. We have optimized a single BLOB container.
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* There are no TINYTEXT, MEDIUMTEXT and LONGTEXT datatypes. Use TEXT or BLOB.
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* There is no UNSIGNED (as per the standard).
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* There are no spatial data types GEOMETRY, POINT, LINESTRING & POLYGON (go use `Postgres <http://www.postgresql.org>`_).
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* No YEAR field type.
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* There are no FULLTEXT indexes for the MyISAM storage engine (the only engine FULLTEXT was supported in). Look at either Lucene, Sphinx, or Solr.
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* The "LOCAL" keyword in "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE" is not supported