-----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development- bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Dries Buytaert

I've talked to some MySQL employees and it seems that Falcon is going to be the new InnoDB -- so to speak. ;-) It's developed internally at MySQL as a replacement for InnoDB.

In general, it is expected that more and more storage engines will emerge. There are even plans (jokes?) to create a mail storage engine (with header parsing support) and/or an image storage engine (with EXIF support). Imagine being able to query images based on the embedded EXIF data -- sure sounds like fun.

Actually there would need to be something like that developed to compete with Exchange which uses a highly optimized jet engine to accomplish that but that's a different list discussion ;).