SQL Zone - Comments for "MySQL creator releases Maria, the new engine that will replace InnoDB"

Interesting..given the

fg82183 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:40:46 -0500

Interesting..given the start up that I am at just started development sound slike the time to play with Maria is now..

Maria is not arpelcement for MYISAM..MySAM is not trasnaction safe as is InnoDB two very different enginess Maria is the replacement for InnoDB..

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It's good that they are

jalexoid — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:51:13 -0500

It's good that they are addressing a multitude of their Gotchas.

There are more storage engines like solidDB storage engine.

But for speed with reasonable reliability MySQL beats out anything.

I agree that this is more

jsight — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:50:55 -0500

I agree that this is more of a MyISAM replacment at the moment. Your feature list is the list for 2.0 features, not the list for the product being released today (which is non-transactional with poorer concurrency than MyISAM).

I am still not sure what they mean by this:

"Concurrent selects (thanks to MVCC)"

MVCC is not required for concurrent selects, and I'm not sure why they would imply that it is.

This line also struck me as disturbing:

"Maria 1.0 has one writer or many readers. (MyISAM can have one inserter and many readers when using concurrent inserts)"

It doesn't seem to me that there will be a compelling reason to use this until some future release (maybe 2.0).

ijuma wrote:It's worth

rick — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:56:40 -0500

ijuma wrote:

It's worth mentioning Falcon[1]. It seems to me that Maria is a MyISAM replacement while Falcon is an alternative to InnoDB. However, given some of the functionality provided by Maria, it seems like things will be less clear-cut when it comes to making a choice between either Falcon or Maria (not to mention InnoDB itself).

Thanks, Ismael - I wasn't aware of Falcon. I will go look at it right away. It does seem like there's some blurring of the lines between these two new engines. How do you think Maria fits into the bigger picture now?

Hi, It's worth mentioning

ijuma — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:46:50 -0500

Hi,

Ismael

[1] http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Falcon

We added a poll over in the

rick — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:08:00 -0500

We added a poll over in the forums. "MySQL Maria: How quickly will you start to experiment?"