[meursault]

Doesn't bypassing the SQL parser kind of make this a NOSQL solution?

[seunosewa]

It's also a NoACID solution.

[jerf]

It says you still get the ACID from InnoDB in the article; I have no way to independently verify that, but since people are talking about the speed gains coming from bypassing the SQL parser it would make sense that InnoDB still sees the same basic queries and therefore has the same properties it usually does. InnoDB, despite its association with MySQL, does have ACID and transactions and stuff.

[morgo]

Each modification is going to be atomic, but you don't have transactions.

It still has durability against partially written writes via InnoDB's double write buffer - so it's more ACID than most NoSQL solutions.