A new database management system (DBMS) designed for web applications and cloud computing could be the start of a new direction in DBMS development and, indeed, in software as a whole.
Drizzle - unveiled recently at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) by MySQL director of architecture Brian Aker - is described as a "slimmed down version of MySQL" and defined as much by what it doesn't do as by what it does.
It will have no unnecessary features, won't support Windows or be compatible with MySQL, and neither will it be "SQL relational compliant". The decision to fly in the face of convention could be either bold - or stupid.
Aker blogged that Drizzle is the result of discussions with a number of MySQL-interested parties on issues such as feature bloat and performance. The starting point is the creation of a micro-kernel which strips out many features, which are traditionally considered essential in a modern DBMS.
Specifically, Drizzle does not have stored procedures, views, triggers, query cache and prepared statements. Field-data types have been simplified...
O...K...?
So, let me get this straight: you're developing a database platform that has a very limited set of data types, won't run on Windows, isn't compatible with the access language that every other major database uses, doesn't have any useful development features, doesn't apparently fucking have anything of use at all?
Yes, folks, he's just as mad as he looks:
PS Mr Aker, have you considered this? It's fast, limited in capabilities and whacks your daft idea to the wide when it comes to stability.
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