Making MySQL Worse Than It Already Is
I like MySQL. I do. Much of the work that we do is based on MySQL. However, that usage is based out of necessity because many of the frameworks that we use (e.g. Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress) do not adequately support Microsoft SQL, which I would MUCH rather use.
MySQL has seen great improvement in version 5; the feature list has grown to include views, triggers, stored procedures. The implementation of these features leaves much to be desired (no indexed views, cursors in stored procedures are…quirky) but version 5 was a step in the right direction and has us eagerly anticipating version 6.
Yet along comes “Drizzle”, the brainchild (brainfart?) of MySQL’s director of architecture, Brian Aker.
Drizzle will have a micro-kernel architecture with code being removed from the Drizzle core and moved through interfaces into modules. Akers has already selected particular functionality for removal: modes, views, triggers, prepared statements, stored procedures, query cache, data conversion inserts, access control lists and some data types.
Source: Builders.au
Mmmm…WTF?
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