Have you heard of Drizzle? It was announced at OSCON yesterday and
is all over the blogosphere. From the Drizzle FAQ:
* So what are the differences between is and MySQL?
No modes, views, triggers, prepared statements, stored
procedures, query cache, data conversion inserts, ACL. Fewer data
types. Less engines, less code. Assume the primary engine is
transactional.
Also from the FAQ is that, right now at least, there is no
intention to make this run natively on windows and they make the
point:
* "This is not a SQL compliant relational..."
Very true, and we do not aim to be that.
It is a fork of MySQL that takes it backward to pre-5.0 in
features but hopefully greatly reduces the bugs and
instabilities. I plan to look at it but I don't see …
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