MySQL encourages third-party storage engine development amid debuts of new storage offerings from the likes of Solid Information Technology at its 2006 Users Conference.

Open-source database maker MySQL AB will soon release the alpha version of its Falcon storage engine, designed for high-volume Web server environments, a company executive said Wednesday. News of ...

A new pluggable storage engine has been developed for MySQL running in IBM i, V5R4 and V6R1 and is now available in beta. The product, IBMDB2I, works with MySQL 5.1.

It’s not clear that the MyRocks storage engine can be installed by itself in an existing, conventional MySQL 5.6 deployment. The fact that MyRocks is open source eases its implementation, but it ...

Competitors like Amazon may also have tweaked MySQL in building their services, but Oracle’s benchmarks suggest that Oracle’s work creating a new storage engine has paid off.

The contract has a term of less than 10 years and calls for Oracle to update Innobase's InnoDB storage engine--as it had been before the acquisition--on the same terms, Marten Mickos, MySQL's CEO.

RethinkDB is a new startup that’s looking to capitalize on this problem by building a storage engine for mySQL databases that’s fully optimized for SSD drives, bringing with it large speed ...