Kevin Lewis
Falcon Team Lead, Sun Microsystems

Kevin Lewis is the Falcon Team Lead and has been working on the Falcon database engine within MySQL for nearly three years. Before that, Kevin worked for 10 years as a Lead Developer for the Pervasive.SQL Microkernel, which is the storage engine for Pervasive’s Btrieve and SQL products.

Sessions

4:25pm Wednesday, 04/16/2008
Falcon for InnoDB Users
Architecture and Technology, Migration, Storage Engine Development and Optimization
 Location: Ballroom E
Kevin Lewis (Sun Microsystems), Ann Harrison (MySQL)
Falcon is MySQL’s new transactional storage engine, currently in beta. Falcon, however, is not InnoDB and was not designed as a drop in replacement. The talk will discuss the architectural and philosophical differences between Falcon and InnoDB, and the problems that may be encountered when switching between InnoDB and Falcon. Read more.
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