Drizzle: An amazing open source project

Since I participated the Drizzle project through Google Soc, I am curious that how this project come? Who are the guys keep contributing Drizzle? And what kind of person my mentor, Jay Pipes, is?

OK, after the period of geting know with Drizzle. Let me announce the answer:

1. The history of Drizzle

Here Brian announced Drizzle is the headwaters where Drizzle idea created as far as I know. So it has started almost a year: )

Drizzle is a community-driven project based on the popular MySQL DBMS that is focused on MySQL's original goals of ease-of-use, reliability and performance.

Drizzle Features:

Based on MySQL 6.0 source tree

No shipped libraries

POSIX compliance

Micro kernel design

Pluggable Architecture for views, stored procedures, UDFs, storage engines ...

Sharding across multiple nodes

Intelligent proxy

Multi CPU/Multi Core

Optimized field types

Efficient memory use

No internal ACL, use LDAP/PAM

No database data formatting

Cleaned up make system

InnoDB default storage engine

Windows compatibility removed

Localized commandline tools and user notifications

2. The famliy of Drizzle

Up to now, there more than three hundred members join this project. See how charming Drizzle is!!

And from Jay's blog, I knew there are some of the main contributors:

Brian Aker, Eric Day, Ronald Bradford, Monty Taylor, Patrick Galbraith, Mats Kindahl, Jay Pipes, Stewart Smith, and Toru Maesaka.

They keep codeing and designing with great enthusiasm.

3. About my mentor: Jay

As I know Jay has been as a staff engineer on the Drizzle project in the Sun CTO organization since October 2. 2008 (So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish)

Most I learn from Drizzle is from his blog (a really long blog), also from his blog, I knew he is not only a tough guy in IT. He can build house himself, he combined high performance Mysql with kong-fu as "Join-fu: The Art of SQL" -- what a creative idea is: )

So, I am thankful that I can work with a guy who is full of passion to his life, his work.