Drizzle

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Drizzle was a fork of MySQL that has now since been abandoned.

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Website: http://www.drizzle.org[01]
Country of Origin: US
Start Year: 2008 [03]
End Year: 2012
Project Type: Open Source
Written in: C++
Derived From: MySQL
Licenses: BSD License, GPL v2, GPL v3
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle_(database_server)[02]

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Drizzle

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Abandoned Forked Code

Drizzle was a fork of MySQL that has now since been abandoned.

Checkpoints

Fuzzy

Same as MySQL

Compression

Naïve (Page-Level)

Same as MySQL

Concurrency Control

Multi-version Concurrency Control (MVCC) Two-Phase Locking (Deadlock Detection)

Same as MySQL

Data Model

Relational

Same as MySQL

Foreign Keys

Supported

Same as MySQL

Indexes

B+Tree R-Tree Inverted Index (Full Text)

Same as MySQL

Isolation Levels

Read Uncommitted Read Committed Serializable Repeatable Read

Same as MySQL

Joins

Nested Loop Join

Same as MySQL

Logging

Physical Logging Physiological Logging

Same as MySQL

Query Compilation

Not Supported

Same as MySQL

Query Execution

Tuple-at-a-Time Model

Same as MySQL

Query Interface

SQL

Same as MySQL

Storage Architecture

Disk-oriented

Same as MySQL

Storage Model

N-ary Storage Model (Row/Record)

Same as MySQL

Storage Organization

Copy-on-Write / Shadow Paging

Same as MySQL

Stored Procedures

Supported

Same as MySQL

System Architecture

Shared-Everything

Same as MySQL

Views

Virtual Views

Same as MySQL

Citations

3 sources

Xcitium Secure Internet Gateway drizzle.org Dead — Check Archive Accessed: 2026-07-16
Drizzle (database server) - Wikipedia wikipedia.org Modified: 2025-10-21 Accessed: 2026-06-04
http://docs.drizzle.org/brief_history_of_drizzle.html drizzle.org Dead — Check Archive Accessed: 2026-05-21

Revision #7 Last Updated: 2026-08-29 22:08