[development] OT: Future of Transactional Engine with MySQL

[Dries Buytaert]

On 03 Jan 2007, at 16:56, Moshe Weitzman wrote:
>  > 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.
>
> both of these are handled provided by OSX Spotlight ... Too bad  
> spotlight UI is so awful.

Neither does Spotlight search my web applications/services.  I think  
specialized storage engines are really neat -- as long they are  
stable and bugfree.  It would be cool to see MySQL move up the stack  
a little ...

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