Upcoming MariaDB 10.0.7 will have more engines – mroonga, OQGRAPH
In recent time, MariaDB 10 has been getting many new storage engines. We’ve seen TokuDB, CONNECT, SEQUENCE, SPIDER, CassandraSE for various use cases. For a long time, MariaDB shipped OQGRAPH, but it was disabled in MariaDB 5.5. It will make a come back as OQGRAPH v3 has been worked on actively by Andrew McDonnell. Keep track of this via MDEV-5319.
Another engine being worked on by Kentoku Shiba & team is the mroonga engine, which allows you to do full text search. It is optimised for CJK languages, and is supposedly very fast. To track this, follow MDEV-5222.
What this means is that from the start of the MariaDB project, the only engine that we have disabled and don’t include since 5.5 and greater is PBXT. That’s a pretty good record of having many shipping storage engines that have largely come from the community.
Interesting. Isn’t 10.0 in beta since quite some time? Just curious, but how does adding these new storage engines match with the definition of “Beta” outlined in the Release Criteria at https://mariadb.com/kb/en/release-criteria/?
Hi @LenzGr:disqus,
With storage engines, they can be popped in even in a GA release to some extent. They are fairly isolated as you will know. Feature-wise, nothing else is going into the beta… Improvements to things like parallel replication is happening obviously.
Interesting definition – I always assumed that these criteria apply to all components included in a release. Anyway, all the best for getting this release out the door!
@LenzGr:disqus – heh, I guess the fact that the storage engine API and plugin api is fairly abstracted, popping things into a release makes it “Easier”. Its like a PAM authentication plugin making it into a release, post-GA even. In that sense, old habits die hard, ala mysql days