Let us talk about Maria.. no no not Maria Sharapova, its new version of MyISAM engine for MySQL which is claimed to be crash safe and provides more concurrency. It aims at becoming fully transactional (ACID). Following are the features of Maria. Featuresul.myPost li{text-decoration:none;border:none;list-style-type:disc;margin-left:10px;}ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) Commit/Rollback Concurrent selects (via MVCC) Row locking Group commitAlthough Maria itselft is ...