Oracle Claims Dramatic MySQL Performance Improvements

New submitter simula67 writes "Oracle wins back some karma from the open source community by releasing MySQL cluster 7.2 with ambitious claims of 70x performance gains. The new release is GPL and claims to have processed over 1 billion queries per minute. Readers may remember the story about Oracle adding commercial extensions to MySQL."

Re:PostgreSQL

[Hognoxious]

Is PostgreSQL webscale? MongoDB is.

Re:PostgreSQL

[roman_mir]

Any questions? [youtube.com]

70x

[slasho81]

Developers: We've got some really good ideas for increasing performance of complex queries by...
Marketing: How much in the best conceivable case?
Developers: Oh, I dunno, maybe 70x.
Marketing: 70x? Is that good?
Developers: Yeah, I suppose, but the cool stuff is...
Marketing: Wow! 70x! That's a really big number!
Developers: Actually, please don't quote me on that. They'll make fun of me on Slashdot if you do. Promise me.
Marketing: We promise.
Developers: Thanks. Now, let me show you where the good stuff is...
Marketing (on phone): Larry? It's me. How big can you print me up a poster that says "70x"?

Re:MySQL in-memory speed

[bbbaldie]

Thanks for judging me. And for being so humble about it. Oh, and thanks for helping to dispel the notion that arrogant pricks hang around /. :-)