MySQL 6.0.6 Alpha Released Introduces Maria

MySQL 6.0.6-alpha, a new version of the MySQL database system has been released and intoduces two new storage engines most interesting Maria.

The Maria storage engine is a crash safe version of MyISAM. Maria supports all of the main functionality of the MyISAM engine, but includes recovery support (in the event of a system crash), full logging (including CREATE, DROP, RENAME and TRUNCATE operations), all MyISAM row formats and a new Maria specific row format. Maria is documented at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/se-maria.html

Grab the source and binary versions from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/6.0.html