The Drizzle project is building a database optimized for Cloud and Net applications. It is being designed for massive concurrency on modern multi-CPU/core architectures. The code is originally derived from MySQL.
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Drizzle behavior now allows 0 to mean NULL, but NULL to mean 0. This release will work on the IPv6 data type. Continued code refactoring and various bugfixes.
The drizzleadmin utility has been removed. The same functionality can be achieved via cleaner, alternate methods (UDS and the console plugin + SSH). DATA_DICTIONARY tables' identifiers now use MAXIMUM_IDENTIFIER_LENGTH to match INFORMATION_SCHEMA behavior. Continued code refactoring. Various bugfixes. The dbqp test runner now has sql-bench and crashme modes. Check the Drizzle docs for more information.