Sun Celebrates Third-Party MySQL Storage Engines

Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced new and enhanced third-party support for the MySQL database’s unique pluggable storage engine architecture. The MySQL Certified Storage Engine Program enables commercial and community database engine developers to certify that their software has been tested and is compatible with Sun’s MySQL Database Server – helping to assure MySQL users that these certified engines have reached high-level standards of usability, performance and integration.

Sun also helps promote these third-party solutions to its MySQL database customers and open source community through a range of co-marketing activities.

“MySQL’s innovative and modular design allows users to mix-and-match specialized database engines depending on their applications’ needs — providing optimal performance and functionality, while avoiding an inefficient ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach that can lead to complexity and bloat,” said Zack Urlocker, VP of Products, Database Group, Sun Microsystems. “Our certification program gives community- and partner-developed engines an equal footing with the software that our own engineers build.”

The following database engines are a part of the certified partner program:

Innobase OY, a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation

Kickfire
PBXT, sponsored by PrimeBase Technologies
Brighthouse, from Infobright

In addition, MySQL offers a number of its own storage engines, including MyISAM, Cluster, Memory, and Archive. Falcon, MySQL’s newest transactional database engine, is being designed for large-memory, multi-threaded and multi-core CPU applications such as high-volume Web sites. There is also a new experimental crash-safe version of MyISAM being developed under the code-name Maria

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