Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter Team Up On WebScaleSQL To Tackle MySQL Challenges
Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter face similar challenges in working with open-source database MySQL, and Thursday, the four companies announced that they joined forces to form WebScaleSQL, aimed at sharing a common set of changes to the upstream MySQL branch via open source.
Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter face similar challenges in working with open-source database MySQL, and Thursday, the four companies announced that they joined forces to form WebScaleSQL, aimed at sharing a common set of changes to the upstream MySQL branch via open source.
Highlights follow from the announcement of WebScaleSQL in a post on the Facebook engineering blog by Software Engineer Steaphan Greene:
Together, we’re working to share a common base of code changes to the upstream MySQL branch that we can all use and that will be made available via open source.
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