Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/Native geospatial data types/From GeoData developer/reply (3)

Then perhaps this RFC should be tabled till MariaDB 10.x with the Aria storage engine is more widespread and being used by WMF (assuming that is where WMF is going). Aria, from what I've read, should address the crashiness/replication/non-transactional nature of MyISAM, with all the benefits of an ACID compliant storage engine.