In my previous article about the Spider storage engine, I made some tests and I saw that the engine has potential. I did also identify some problems, which were promptly addressed by the author. I have looked at the latest version (0.12), and the results are very much encouraging. Installing the Spider storage engine is not trivial but not extremely difficult either. My previous article has a step
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