Oracle presents “much faster” MySQL beta

“MySQL logo Oracle presented a beta of what it called a “much
faster” MySQL at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference and insists it will
be continuing to invest in the open source database. Oracle’s Chief
Corporate Architect, Edward Screven, presented the beta version of
MySQL 5.5 which will now use InnoDB as its default storage engine,
saying that the switch offers a 200% performance improvement and
over ten times faster recovery times. He assured the audience that
despite the switch to Oracle’s InnoDB, Oracle will be maintaining
the pluggable storage engine architecture and that the company
would continue to ship the same code base in the community and
enterprise editions.

“Screven said Oracle’s plan for MySQL was to keep it as a slim,
easy-to-administer database and that it would be investing to make
MySQL compete more effectively with Microsoft’s SQL Server.”

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