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

The Drizzle team has removed non-essential code, re-factored the remaining code and modernized the code base moving to C++.

Drizzle Developer Day 2011 - April 15th - Sign up here

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Charter

1. A database optimized for Cloud infrastructure and Web applications
   

2. Design for massive concurrency on modern multi-cpu architecture
   

3. Optimize memory for increased performance and parallelism
   

4. Open source, open community, open design
   

Scope

1. Re-designed modular architecture providing plugins with defined APIs
   

2. Simple design for ease of use and administration
   

3. Reliable, ACID transactional
   

Downloads

 Latest source build: Drizzle7 2011.01.08 (What's new)

 Latest Debian/Ubuntu packages: Drizzle7 2011.01.08 (PPA)

 Latest RedHat/Fedora packages: Drizzle7 2011.01.08 (YUM instructions)

Mailing Lists

1. •Discussion: Subscribe - Archive

1. •Benchmark results: Subscribe - Archive

1. •Build results: Subscribe - Archive

On the Web

1. •Getting Started
   

2. •Presentations
   

3. •Drizzle on Launchpad
   

4. •License
   

5. •Freshmeat
   

Chat

Many of the Drizzle developers and community members hang out in the #drizzle channel on irc.freenode.net

If you are new to IRC and don’t have a client, you can use a web-based client