New MYSQL database engine "Maria"

A blog posting from MySQL founder and original developer, Michael "Monty" Widenius, announces the release of a major new database engine called Maria. Over two years in the making, the Maria engine appears to be the open source database leader's answer to the problem posed by Oracle's acquisition of InnoDB. Here's a list of major features of Maria:

* ACID
* Commit/Rollback
* Concurrent selects (thanks to MVCC)
* Row locking
* Group commit

Please check Monty blog for more info.