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MySQL Falcon Storage Engine Open Sourced

Posted by kdawson on from the stooping-to-conquer dept.

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.

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  1. New Microsoft Sql Server by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    New Microsoft Sql Server coming soon to a store near you. Cant wait for M$ to secretly add this to their SQL server and call it innovation.

  2. Re:Please explain by slightcrazed · · Score: -1, Troll

    "I'm a developer, but I've never used MySQL." Nice to meet you. I'm a mechanic who's never used a wrench. My brother, the surgeon who's never used a scalple will be by shortly.

  3. Yes!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Big Fucking Deal!!

    You stupid fucktards and your Open Source!

    Give me a Goddamn Break!!!

    Open Source is for Retards!!!! It's garbage!!!! GNU is shit!!!! Fuck you!!!!

    I refuse to use Open Source!!!! It's shite...don't listen to these fucktards!

  4. Re:Okay, I'm stupid. What is a storage engine? by Bacon+Bits · · Score: 0, Troll

    You know, I really hate to say this, but:

    Spoken like a true MySQL developer.

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    The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.