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Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web

Incon writes "Builder AU reports that Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Drizzle will have a... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Wed, Jul 23 2008

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