With Facebook (s fb) engineers, it appears the high-performance database apple doesn't far fall from the tree. On Monday, former Facebookers Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov (who also spent six years as a senior engineer on Microsoft (s msft) SQL Server) launched a startup called MemSQL that seeks to speed relational databases by taking a page out of the Facebook playbook.
Databases (NoSQL and Relational) are getting more interesting everyday.
