Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn combine to launch WebScaleSQL

Facebook’s oft-stated mission, per Mark Zuckerberg, is to make the world more open and connected. The social network joined tech giants Google, Twitter and LinkedIn to make this happen faster.

The four companies announced Thursday the launch of WebScaleSQL, described by Facebook Software Engineer Steaphan Greene as, “a collaboration among engineers from several companies that face similar challenges in running MySQL at scale and seek greater performance from a database technology tailored to their needs.”

So far, WebScaleSQL has already built a framework that will run and publish the results of each proposed change of MySQL’s built-in test system, as well as a new suite of stress tests and a performance testing system — among other things.

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