Two ex-developers from the social notworking site Facebook developers have built a new database which they claim goes like the clappers compared to MySQL.
According to TechCrunch, Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov, have developed MemSQL and claim it is thirty times faster than normal disk-based databases.
The pair used techniques they had used at Facebook. This involved translating the code into C++, so avoiding the need to use a slow SQL interpreter. Data is kept in memory, with disk read/writes taking place in the background.
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