MySQL database have been growing with each release and more features are being added. As the database adds new features the database expands correspondingly. Before there was no trigger, views, stored procedures in MySQL database, but now it does have these functions which makes it grow in size.

People that are developing applications on the web doesn’t necessarily need all those added features that are built in the likes of Oracle, MSSQL, DB2, or other big shot databases. I would prefer a much leaner MySQL that is optimized for web applications or cloud and net applications without the over head of features that are not needed.

A new open source project called Drizzle, aims to develop a smaller and faster version of MySQL. This would some how remove unnecessary stuff in MySQL which web users consider not useful like stored procedures, triggers, grants, to name a few.

The Drizzle project is not a replacement of the regular MySQL database server as it only targets a limited number of users. Drizzle would be in layman’s terms a lightweight community developed MySQL database which is open for creating features specific to web developers.