Conference News …

[peterlaursen]

and the question was the one I asked here:

http://www.webyog.com/blogs/peterlaursen/index.php?&st=10#

from

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1953658,00.asp

First off, MySQL announced that it is opening up its pluggable database storage engine API and encouraging third-party companies and the open-source community to develop engines for its open-source database.

Solid Information Technology was the first database company to jump on the invitation, throwing its OLTP (online transaction processing) storage engine out for download and community testing on April 24.

Solid adapted its OLTP storage engine to work with MySQL Server and has made a prototype of the engine, called SolidDB Storage Engine for MySQL, available under the GNU GPL (General Public License).

MySQL is expecting several additional database vendors and community projects to announce supporting storage engines at the conference.

It's also unveiling its own, internal, advanced transactional database engine, code-named Falcon.

Falcon was designed for modern enterprise and Web 2.0 applications. It will be available under the GPL license and will enter public beta testing this summer.

Robin Schumacher, director of product management for MySQL, said that with the introduction of MySQL 5.1—now in beta and being showcased at the conference—the company is giving users an easy, clap-on, clap-off approach to swapping storage engines.

“From 5.1 on, we're going to give folks two little commands: load and unload,” Schumacher said. “You can load them dynamically without having to recompile. There will be no nasty compilation issues. It will be much easier for folks to introduce new storage engines.”

Schumacher said that Falcon is only the “first engine out of the shoot” as far as MySQL's internally developed storage engines go, and that there are a variety of engines in the works within the open-source community.

[Ritesh]

Something that can be blogged 🙂

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