[wp-hackers] WordPress and Drizzle

[Harish Narayanan]

On 30/12/2009 14:45, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just a quick note to say that you can now play with WordPress and Drizzle
> without experiencing that nasty, nasty bug [1] which managed to crash the
> server on almost every page view!
> 
> Check out the Drizzle database adapter here:
> 
>   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/drizzle/
> 
> That's right -- an early WordPress port making tomorrow better, today! ;-)
> 
> (No one, least of all the Drizzle developers or I, would recommend using
> this on a production blog. It will spare your dog, but may just kill your
> cat.)

It is not clear to me after going through the launchpad page for
Drizzle, so could you clarify the obvious advantages of using Drizzle
instead of MySQL (today, or perhaps in the future)?

Thanks!
Harish