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MySQL Falcon Storage Engine Open Sourced
An anonymous reader writes "The code for the Falcon Storage Engine for MySQL has been released as open source. Jim Starkey, known as the father of Interbase, is behind its creation; previously he was involved with the Firebird SQL database project. Falcon looks to be the long-awaited open source storage engine that may become the primary choice for MySQL, and along the way offer some innovation and performance improvements over current alternatives." This is an alpha release for Windows (32-bit) and Linux (32- and 64-bit) only, and is available only in a specially forked release of MySQL 5.1.
To say one is a developer within this thread implies that you are an app developer who is familiar with database interaction within an application. To be in that line of work and not have at least a basic understanding of one of the major players (and yes, I consider MySQL a major player in the DB sector) is a farce at best, and an admittance of stupidity at worst. My comment may have been tongue in cheek, but the point was still valid.
You're that Postgres user I hear so much from, aren't you? Run along, son, and vacuum me a database while you're at it.
I'm not sure why people clamor to MySQL, and all its problems; when postgres is faster, cheaper, (yes it's cheaper, look at all the database engine within database you have to muck with for mysql, TCO is not measured only in money) and Postgres won't have these "engine" problems that Mysql has.
Yes yes, I know you Mysql toilet paper crowd will stick to Mysql no matter how much it shits on you..
http://tweakers.net/reviews/657/6 -- proof's in the pudding..