Welcome to Drizzle’s documentation!

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Drizzle is a transactional, relational, community-driven open-source database that is forked from the popular MySQL database.

The Drizzle team has removed non-essential code, has re-factored the remaining code, and has converted the code to modern C++ and modern libraries.

Charter
  • A database optimized for Cloud infrastructure and Web applications
  • Design for massive concurrency on modern multi-CPU architectures
  • Optimize memory use for increased performance and parallelism
  • Open source, open community, open design
Scope
  • Re-designed modular architecture providing plugins with defined APIs
  • Simple design for ease of use and administration
  • Reliable, ACID transactional

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