Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL to make your database fly

Reblogged from GigaOM:

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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.

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Databases (NoSQL and Relational) are getting more interesting everyday.

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