MEM SQL

[Adam Howard]

Something the past developers of Facebook.com have actually made. It looks interesting.

WHAT IS MEMSQL?

MemSQL is a next generation database that removes the most common bottleneck applications hit today: disk. By offering a familiar relational interface to an in-memory data tier, MemSQL empowers developers with the technology web-scale companies use to cope with massive traffic and growth. MemSQL offers orders of magnitude improvements in write and read performance and greatly simplifies application development and maintenance by offering wire-compatibility with MySQL.

http://developers.memsql.com/

 

[craigiri]

FB needs a heck of a lot of such things.......
I heard they are the biggest customers for this stuff - The Woz new venture:

http://www.fusionio.com/

Having massive RAM and a db which lies inside it is one idea of how to keep massive amounts of data moving......

 

[Adam Howard]

I've actually downloaded a copy and am trying to get XenForo to work with it.