Drizzle is an open source project which is based on a fork of MySQL. Drizzle is designed to be a light weight, easy to use database for web applications and cloud infrastructures. The primary goal for the Drizzle project has been to focus on ease of use, performance and stability. The code has been significantly re-factored and the overall design has been re-architected to provide a modular design for adding plugin support for features that users may want to add as needed for their infrastructure (logging, authentication, replication, protocol, etc.)