I promised to write little articles about all storage engines which sessions I attended during MySQL Users Conference but I did not get too far yet, too busy. So today it is time for PBXT.
I was very interested about session about PBXT because this is storage engine does not target the same general purpose transactional storage engine market a lot of other people targeting. It also has number of unusual design decisions which will position it further away.
Paul was for a while comparing PBXT to MyISAM with multi versioning and transactions and this is valid comparison for good and for bad. At its current state (as of the conference) PBXT does not offer Durable transactions (meaning you can lose committed transactions if power goes down) furthermore in case of crash database may become corrupted, just as with MyISAM, and you might need to repair tables. This is of course something which is scheduled to be fixed before stable release …
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