FederatedX Pluggable Storage Engine Released!
The initial release of the FederatedX Pluggable Storage Engine for MySQL is now
available. I developed the Federated Storage Engine when I worked at MySQL,
and really saw a lot of potential with it. However, there were many other
projects that I had to give attention to, and many features and bug fixes that
users wanted didn't come into fruition because of the busy schedule. I left
MySQL a year ago to pursue an opportunity with Grazr what has kept me equally
busy. However, I have made a resolution this year to give some projects that I
have wanted to improve the attention that they need. I still see a lot of
potential with the "federated" concept.

Federated as it is isn't what many people expect it to be. IBM for instance,
has a federation as a very integral part of DB2. The Federated Storage Engine
is a proof-of-concept storage engine -- not to say it doesn't have
functionality that people can and are using currently.

I'd like to do what I can to change that. Some enhancements that I can think
of are:

• Push-down conditions - being able to have a LIMIT be pushed down
  to a remote data source so a user isn't hammered with a huge data set.


• Better transactional functionality. There is a patch out there that is
  suffering bit-rot that I would like to get included.


• Other connection protocols. I wrote the Federated ODBC Storage Engine (I
  will release this soon too after I clean it up and test it. It would be good however to have a layer for other connections that doesn't require a separate storage engine. Also think JDBC, native client libs for other RDBMSs (think of the potential for migration tools!)


• Handling large data sets - there must be a better way!.