InformationWeek | Open Source | MySQL Adds Second Option As Storage Engine | April 17, 2006
MySQL will have SolidDB OLTP storage engine as an option for its popular open-source database, filling what could have become a void caused by Oracle’s acquisition last fall of Innobase.
MySQL and Innobase’s InnoDB had been a popular combination but Oracle’s buyout of Innobase cast some doubt on future collaboration. MyISAM, Memory, Merge and Cluster are other storage engines that plug into MySQL.
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I’m a little confused here. There are like, 15 different database engines for MySQL. There is one of the most popular, MyISAM, and then MEMORY, InnoDB, BerkeleyDB, ARCHIVE, CSV, ndbcluster, FEDERATED, just to name a few.
SolidDB is hardly the “second” MySQL storage engine. And InnoDB is not even close to being the first.