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In a Facebook engineering blog, Steaphan Greene, a Facebook software engineer, announced the creation of a new MySQL branch: WebScaleSQL. This is a version of Oracle's MySQL for gigantic database ...

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Looking skyward, most people see clouds, the sun, the moon. MySQL CEO Marten Mickos sees a giant database. The CEO of the open source database company isn’t talking about hallucinatory giant SQL ...