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Re:Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL (YC W11) to make your databa... by genwin on Monday June 18, 2012 @03:20PM (#4128032)
> We will also put the technology on steroids, by building a clustered system

Isn't that the same as MySQL Cluster, minus the SQL-to-C++ part (and maybe lock-free structures)? Why not fork MySQL Cluster to add the SQL-to-C++ code generation? Then it seems you could claim (from MemSQL site) "MemSQL is ... still faster than other in-memory databases because of SQL-to-C++ code generation" and also support every feature of MySQL Cluster. Why reinvent the wheel only to create something with great limitations compared to the existing wheel?

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Re:Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL (YC W11) to make your databa... by tintor on Monday June 18, 2012 @03:38PM (#4128100)
"Why not fork MySQL Cluster to add the SQL-to-C++ code generation (and lock-free storage engine)?"

:) It is a little more complicated than that.

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