Drizzle (database server)
Drizzle is a discontinued free software/open-source relational database management system (DBMS) that was forked from the now-defunct 6.0 development branch of the MySQL DBMS.
| Developer(s) | Brian Aker and others |
|---|---|
| Final release | 7.2.4
/ September 23, 2012 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Cross-platform POSIX |
| Available in | English, with GNU Gettext translations into 43 other languages |
| Type | Database management system |
| License | Primarily GNU General Public License version 2 and 3, with some BSD components |
| Website | www |
Like MySQL, Drizzle had a client/server architecture and uses SQL as its primary command language. Old Drizzle files are distributed under version 2 and 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL) with portions, including the protocol drivers and replication messaging under the BSD license.
Early work on the fork was done mid-2008 by Brian Aker. Ongoing development was handled by a team of contributors that included staff members from Canonical Ltd., Google, Six Apart, Sun Microsystems, Rackspace, Data Differential, Blue Gecko, Intel, Percona, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat, and others. Drizzle source code, along with instructions on compiling it, are available via the project's Launchpad website.
In October 2010, Drizzle had 13,478 total contributions, 96 total contributors, and 37 active contributors. It was also announced that Drizzle had entered Beta. The first GA version was released in March 2011. Drizzle has actively participated in the Google Summer of Code Project since 2010.
By late 2013 the project's active phase had come to an end. In July 2016 the maintainers concluded that the time had come for "winding things up officially" because "none of us have any time to dedicate to Drizzle anymore".