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A snapshot from the "NewSQL" frontier

"Frenkiel (the company’s CEO) and Shamgunov (its CTO) installed their own engineering bootcamp inside the San Francisco startup — “we even hired an ex-Marine officer,” says Frenkiel, referring to executive vice president Carl Wright — and with their new team of engineers, they created a software system that would mimic the Facebook machine, letting the rest of the world harness massive amounts of data in ways that are now routine with Zuckerberg and company.
MemSQL offers what’s called an “in-memory database.” Much like a Facebook creation known as Scuba, it spreads information across the memory systems inside dozens of computer servers, bypassing the (much slower) hard disks that traditionally house the world’s information. The end result is a system that lets you retrieve and analyze data at unusually high speeds."

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