What is the ultimate goal of Maria?
NOTE: The following goals are the *technical goals* of the project team. How Maria will ultimately be incorporated in the MySQL Server product and whether it will replace MyISAM is subject to decision by MySQL Product Management. • To create a new, ACID and Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC), transactional storage engine that can function as both the default non-transactional and transactional storage engine for MySQL. • To be a MyISAM replacement. This is possible because Maria can also be run in non-transactional mode, supports the same row formats as MyISAM, and supports or will support all major features of MyISAM. • Maria to be standard part of MySQL 6.0; Maria is already in the MySQL 6.0 tree supported by Sun.