Drizzle | 2009-04-21
Sorry, but Drizzle is Not…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 […]
Drizzle | 2009-04-21
Fear Eats You Up Inside – A Tale of a Team in ChaosThis blog entry is a bit of a written confession from the Sun Drizzle team. It tells the story of the last few weeks, and how we didn’t “Do the […]
C/C++ | 2009-04-02
Towards a New Modular Replication ArchitectureOver the past week, I’ve been refactoring the way that the Drizzle kernel communicates with plugin modules that wish to implement functionality related to replication. There are many, many potholes […]
C/C++ | 2009-04-01
Libdrizzle Benchmarks – Massive Performance IncreasesLast night and today, I ran a series of benchmarks against Drizzle. These benchmarks were designed to isolate the performance improvement or regression from one change: using Eric Day‘s new […]
C/C++ | 2009-03-30
Small but steady progress in improving Drizzle performanceWe’re making steady progress in removing bottlenecks in the Drizzle code base. So far, a number of mutexes have been removed and we’ve begin to replace a number of contention […]
C/C++ | 2009-03-04
LCOV Code Coverage Pages for DrizzleYesterday, Monty and I were fussing around with lcov and genhtml trying to generate code coverage analysis for Drizzle. After a few hours, I was finally able to get some […]
Drizzle | 2009-03-03
Signup for Drizzle Developer Day – Friday, April 24th – After MySQL Conference 2009We are having a developer day on the Friday after the MySQL Conference and Expo. Space is limited, so please be sure to sign up on the Drizzle.org wiki if […]
C/C++ | 2009-02-16
A Better Parser Needed?Taking a little break from refactoring temporal data handling this evening, I decided to run some profiles against both Drizzle and MySQL 5.1.33. I profiled the two servers with callgrind […]
C/C++ | 2009-02-11
Drizzle, MySQL, and the mess that is Dates and SQL_MODEThe frustration builds. I have come to despise MySQL’s sql_mode. It is a hack of the most gargantuan proportions. Basically, the optimizer just ignores the sql_mode whenever it is convenient […]
C/C++ | 2009-02-05
Where Drizzle Is SucceedingOver the past few weeks, I have been happy working on Drizzle. Why have I been happy? Is it because of some new incredible code that will revolutionize the database […]