Robert Hodges wrote: > Hi everyone, > > What’s the strategy on compatibility between Drizzle and MySQL? Are > there any areas where Drizzle will remain fully compatible and if so > which ones?
I believe they will remain compatible in as much as they will both be RDBMS's that implement many commonly found features. > Based on Brian Aker’s recent talk at the San Francisco MySQL Meetup, the > list of differences is pretty long. Even if much SQL syntax is > preserved, there are changes to basic datatypes, client libraries, > management, replication, and supported storage engines to name a few. > Moving applications to Drizzle looks like a one-way migration. Not necessarily. Depending on what library/interface you use to connect, applications designed for the general set of features drizzle has that are a subset of datatypes MySQL has (only using int instead of int, mediumint and tinyint, for instance) could potentially be fine. I do believe you are correct in the implication, though - this is not a design goal of ours, so it may be that for a given application the transition would be one way - or would require another transition to move again. Monty _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
