The FacebookThe Google , the LinkedIn, and Twitter today announced this WebScaleSQL, a collaborative project where technicians from these companies will start working together to solve challenges created in the vast fundamentals data.
As its name implies, WebScaleSQL is a customized version of MySQL and is designed for major internet projects.
The four companies will work in parallel for the creation μιας νέας MySQL, που θα είναι διαθέσιμη και στο κοινό αφού θα είναι open source. Στο project θα βοηθήσουν και οι τεχνικοί της MySQL, και δεδομένου ότι θα είναι ανοιχτό, αναμένεται να ακολουθήσουν και πολλοί άλλοι που έχουν την δυνατότητα και τους πconditions.
In a blog post, Facebook revealed who will be the technicians involved in WebScaleSQL and so far how they envision the new project:
- An automated framework that will, for each proposed change, run and publish the results of MySQL's built-in test system (mtr).
- A complete new suite of stress tests and a prototype automated performance testing system.
- Several changes to the tests already found in MySQL, and to the structure of some existing code, to avoid problems where otherwise, safe code changes had previously caused tests to fail or caused unnecessary conflicts. These changes make it easier to work on the code and helped us get started creating WebScaleSQL.
- Several changes to improve the performance of WebScaleSQL, including buffer pool flushing improvements (links here and here); optimizations to certain types of queries; support for NUMA interleave policy; and more.
- New features that make WebScaleSQL work at true web scale easier, such as super_read_only, and the ability to specify sub-second client timeouts.
