Brian Aker discusses Drizzle, DB for the Cloud


On the first day of Open Source World/Cloud World/Etc World I attended Brian Aker’s talk entitled “Drizzle, Rethinking MySQL for the Web.”  For those not in the know, Drizzle is a reworking of the MySQL database to slim it down and make it more appropriate for web-infrastructure and cloud computing .  I caught up with Brian after his talk to learn a little bit more about Drizzle, where its come from and where its going.

Some of the topics that Brian tackles:

  • Looking at what customer needs were not being addressed by MySQL.
  • Stripping stuff out of MySQL and setting up Drizzle as a microkernel design that modules can be added to.
  • One of the main goals was to allow greater community involvement in the development (currently Sun folks only make up 6-7% of those making contributions).
  • Is Drizzle production ready?
  • What cloud bits have been contributed to the project?
  • Why the name “Drizzle”?

Update:  Here’s the Register article based on this entry.

Pau for now…

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9 Responses to Brian Aker discusses Drizzle, DB for the Cloud

  1. Back from Cloud World with a Bunch of Interviews « Barton's Blog says:
    August 18, 2009 at 9:07 am

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  2. Priase Bob says:
    August 18, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    Thanks for the interview

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  3. Arjen Lentz says:
    August 18, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    Hey Barton! some time no see… are you going to fix up the url to spell Brian’s name correctly? It’s an easy mistake I make all the time also, but better not have it persist eh 😉

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  4. Barton George says:
    August 18, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    Hey Arjen,

    Thanks for catching that. I guess my lysdexia got the better of me. It’s fixed now.

    Barton

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  5. Nerds Look like this « Mikes Blog says:
    August 18, 2009 at 11:47 pm

    […] can get the low down on the fork, here, through a interview where Aker talks about Drizzle and the future of Cloud Databases, with the passion and pride only a […]

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  6. Drizzle do kraja godine | Programer says:
    August 19, 2009 at 7:46 am

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  7. Beyond Logical » Blog Archive » Drizzle: a patchy MySQL says:
    August 19, 2009 at 11:51 am

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  8. BotchagalupeMarks for August 19th - 23:42 | IT Management and Cloud Blog says:
    August 21, 2009 at 12:01 am

    […] Brian Aker discusses Drizzle, DB for the Cloud « Barton’s Blog – On the first day of Open Source World/Cloud World/Etc World I attended Brian Aker’s talk entitled “Drizzle, Rethinking MySQL for the Web.” For those not in the know, Drizzle is a reworking of the MySQL database to slim it down and make it more appropriate for web-infrastructure and cloud computing . I caught up with Brian after his talk to learn a little bit more about Drizzle, where its come from and where its going. […]

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  9. MyOOS [Shopsystem] says:
    August 21, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    Drizzle – MySQL-Fork Ende 2009 reif für produktiven Einsatz…

    Drizzle, ein Fork des Datenbankmanagementsystems MySQL, welcher ressourcenschonend und für Cloud Computing geeignet sein soll, wird voraussichtlich zum Jahresende einsatzbereit sein.
    Laut dem Chefentwickler Brian Aker auf der Open Source World in Sa…

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