MySQL director of architecture Brian Aker provides the scoop on Drizzle in a short video interview. If you’re a MySQL user, and especially if you hadn’t heard about Drizzle, and extra especially if you had any concerns about MySQL’s future due to the recent Sun acquisition by Oracle, you should check this out.

Here are my takeaways:

• Drizzle uses a modular system akin to Apache to remain light(er) weight and highly tweakable. Sweet!
• It focuses on convenience of community based development, i.e., Drizzle is viable even if Sun decided to defenestrate the MySQL team.
• Big names are putting time into supporting Drizzle development too.
• MySQL is pronounced My-S-Q-L

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