[development] OT: Future of Transactional Engine with MySQL

[Steven Peck]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: development-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:development-
> bounces at 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 ;).