Today we officially announce our new storage engine, "Percona XtraDB", which is based on the InnoDB storage engine. It's 100% backwards-compatible with standard InnoDB, so you can use it as a drop-in replacement in your current environment. It is designed to scale better on modern hardware, and includes a variety of other features useful in high performance environments.
Percona XtraDB includes all of InnoDB's ACID-compliant design and advanced MVCC architecture, and adds features, more tunability, more metrics, more scalability on many cores, and better memory usage. We choose features and fixes based on customer requests and on our best judgment of real-world needs. We have not included all the InnoDB patches available. For example Google's well-known InnoDB patch set is omitted (at least for now).
The first version of our new storage engine is 1.0.2-1, which is forked from InnoDB-plugin-1.0.2. …
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