Here is the notes from “InnoDB status, architecture and new features” by Heikki Tuuri and Ken Jocobs.
- Introduction
- Announced Plugin 1.0 for MySQL 5.1
- fast, reliable, proven
- fast
- row-level locking, MVCC -> high concurrency & throughput
- high performance CPU, memory and I/O architecture
- efficient indexing (covering)
- reliable
- automatic crash recovery
- integrated referencial integrity and transactions
- online backup
- well written, well tested and large user community
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