I've been watching Akiban build this for a while, and they are planning on releasing an open source version of something similar in a month.
What's interesting to me is that they moved from MySQL, Google's engineers are very smart about code. I wonder if Google looked into writing a storage engine and then realized how awful the code of MySQL is.
Also the fact that Oracle owns MySQL probably gave them an extra impetus to get off of it immediately.
OMFJesus, you people take my blog way too seriously. Of course I understand the issues you all raised, but this is a story (and not even a 100% accurate story because the jackass I work with would find out).
What's interesting to me is that they moved from MySQL, Google's engineers are very smart about code. I wonder if Google looked into writing a storage engine and then realized how awful the code of MySQL is.
Also the fact that Oracle owns MySQL probably gave them an extra impetus to get off of it immediately.