I have published the very first sharable Drizzle Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for AWS EC2, based on the good feedback from my discussion at the Drizzle Developer Day on what options we should try.

This first version is a 32bit Developer instance, showcasing Drizzle and all necessary developer tools to build Drizzle from source.

What you will find on drizzle-ami/intrepid-dev32 - ami-b858bfd1

Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid 32 bit base server installation:

• build tools
• drizzle dependencies
• bzr 1.31.1

From the respective source trees the following software is available:

• drizzle 2009.04.997
• libdrizzle 0.0.2
• gearman 0.0.4
• memcached 1.2.8
• libmemcached 0.28

Drizzle has been configured with …

I’m writing this entry on my way back to Tokyo from Narita. So, I was in the US all week for MySQL UC, Percona Performance Conference and the Drizzle Developer Day. It was great to meet new people and also catch up with developer friends from all over the world. These events are great excuse to bring together folks that work together online and receive the free beers that were promised on IRC. Looking back, the week just flew! I can’t believe I’m back in Japan already.

What wasn’t pleasant however was Drizzle being introduced as “MySQL Drizzle” and described as MySQL’s technology incubator at the opening keynote. The truth is, Drizzle is a community driven project that is not affiliated with any commercial organization. The project is …

I joined about 50 others including a number of core MySQL developers and MySQL community members today for the 2009 Drizzle developers day at Sun Microsystems Santa Clara campus.

In addition to a number of presentations and various group discussions most of my individual hacking time was under the guidance of Drizzle team developer Stewart Smith were Patrick Galbraith and myself started the porting of Patrick’s memcached UDF functions for MySQL.

Leveraging some existing Drizzle plugin’s such as CRC32() and UNCOMPRESS() we were easily able to navigate the src/plugin/memcached directory plug.in, Makefile.am and drizzle_declare_plugin definition in the …

Today I attended the Drizzle Developer Day which took place in the auditorium of the Sun Campus in Santa Clara.

Many of the the Drizzle core hackers as well as several other people interested in the development attended this event, hacking away and discussing various issues. Jeremy Zawodny gave a presentation about Craigslist's needs for Drizzle, Jay Pipes gave an overview over Google's protocol buffers library. I took a number of pictures, which you can find in my …

To follow up on Chuck’s post from earlier this week, I want to say that yes, on Monday morning I raced across the office to share the crazy news that Oracle is trying to buy MySQL Sun.  Though, I don’t remember yelling.

But, I did have a real point here and that is that the numbers that he quoted are prior to the Enterprise / Community split that happened late in 2006 and since then, the landscape has changed dramatically.

Today, there are at least 5 different major forks of MySQL to choose from (and I won’t even talk about the already complicated version and storage engine choices that most companies have to make).  I am counting MySQL Community (freely available)l MySQL Enterprise (allowing for enterprise support contracts with Sun); Our Delta  (a patched MySQL Community version); Monty Widenus’ MariaDB; and of course, Drizzle.   I’m sure there are others that I’m forgetting.  This has the …

I'm incredibly elated to announce the release of DBD::drizzle 0.100. What is different about this release? It uses Eric Day's new client library, libdrizzle! This means we could eventually package the client with DBD::drizzle, eliminating the issues I have with DBD::mysql where code doesn't compile because of trying to compile DBD::drizzle against a MySQL client binary produced on a different machine with a different compiler and compile flags.

I want to thank Clint Byrum - immense thanks- for his work, which the majority of, made this possible. He and I spent the last several days together at the users conference going over the code, getting it to work. We achieved together more in hours time what would have taken days or even weeks. I'm also glad to have gotten to know Clint-- it's great to make new friends!

The next step is that we'll probably write this from scratch at some point. Right now, this is a retro-fit of …

“We’re both in the transportation business. We have a 747, and they have a Toyota.”

The comparison of Oracle’s database and MySQL, made by Oracle president Charles Phillips at the 2004 Vortex Conference was undoubtedly meant as a criticism, but it so graphically demonstrated the differing business strategies and selling-points of the two products that MySQL executives began citing it themselves.

It is also a comparison that explains how the two products could potentially co-exist within a single company, as they seem likely to do following the announcement that Sun has agreed to be acquired by Oracle.

Much of the MySQL-related coverage of the impending acquisition has focused on the likelihood of Oracle killing-off the …

This morning’s MySQL Conference keynotes had a number of inaccuracies, but one that I wish to point out is the characterizations of Drizzle. It looks to me like some Sun/Oracle/MySQL folks are trying to take credit, now that they’re seeing it become a resounding success, for the good work of the Drizzle project. It is not a technology incubator, nor is it the “MySQL Drizzle Project.” It is a new database server. It is Drizzle.

While sitting in krow's talk on Drizzle, I was hacking on my project to allow query logging to Gearman from Drizzle, and I found a couple of annoying bugs in GearmanD, and a critical bug in Drizzle. With MontyT's help, I found and fixed the Drizzle bug, and then showed the GearmanD bugs to EricD, who has gone off to fix them.

Maybe there will be an actual running demo of it all at my BOF this evening.

the "MySQL Drizzle Project". Nor is it "shepparded by MySQL". Sorry, Karen, but in the future, MySQL may play more of a role in Drizzle, but currently, it doesn't. And it doesn't by choice.