A Microkernel DBMS for High Performance Scale-Out Applications

The Drizzle project is building a database optimized for computing cloud and web applications. It is being designed for massive concurrency on modern multi-cpu/core architecture. The code is originally derived from MySQL.

The drizzle project is discussed on the drizzle-discuss mailing list. To show your support, join the mailing list at https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss/ or join the #drizzle channel on irc.freenode.net. Currently the list is comprised of developers and users, as usage is currently very limited and questions, suggestions and concerns need to go directly to the developers. In the future there may be separate developer and user lists.

The project is focused on making a database that is:

  1. Reliable
  2. Fast and scalable on modern architecture
  3. Simple design for ease of installation and management