One of the cooler bits of technology I got to see while in Japan last week was a MySQL Storage Engine for doing fulltext searches in Japanese. The engine in question was Senna, and it was merged with the MyISAM engine. Fulltext for Japanese is hard, its a very non-trivial problem. The Senna developers are some of the many different storage engine vendors who will be at the MySQL User's Conference
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