Drizzle: A Database Designed for Operations

In addition to other things Drizzle has going for it, Drizzle has people with ops backgrounds on the core dev team. We’ve run big sites, and we’ve been annoyed many times. A large part of making a database system that is designed for the cloud is making one that can be installed and managed on N systems where N > 1000. Some of the things we’re doing in this area include:

• Protocol-based sharding keys – split system management from code
• System integration through plugins
• Multi-sourced pluggable configuration system
• Pluggable status, instrumentation and monitoring
• True multi-tenancy support

We’ll talk about each of these, where they are, where they are going, and how they will make life more manageable in the world of operating huge scale out architectures.