[development] Drupal could be 10x times faster with correct indexing

[Jeremy Andrews]

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 08:36 -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> (Maria is not transactional, just a replacement for MyISAM). 

While it is true that the first preview releases (1.0 and 1.5) of Maria
are not going to be transactional (they will be crash safe, but will not
yet include ROLLBACK support) this is a temporary condition for Monty's
new storage engine.  He explains that among his goals for Maria in MySQL
6, it will be a fully transactional storage engine that can replace
MyISAM.  The 2.0 release of Maria is intended to be fully transactional
(crash safe, supporting ROLLBACK, etc), while continuing to support the
ability for completely disabling this transactional functionality if
desired:
http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2008/01/maria-engine-is-released.html 

Cheers,
 -Jeremy