<p><pre><code> > The Community Edition is distributed as an executable
> binary and is a free edition of the commercial MemSQL
> Enterprise Edition. You are free to download and use
> MemSQL Community Edition within your organization.
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So.. how long until the same thing happens as happened with FoundationDB?
Cue "Call me maybe, MemSQL"<p>Aphyr's posts (taken with appropriate amounts of salt) have become the authority on marketing claims. That said, many solutions are perfectly viable with their shortcomings, but knowing what those shortcomings are is essential.
Eric, one of the cofounders, here. happy to answer any questions on MemSQL 4 and the community edition.
Some new features in MemSQL 4:<p>- fully distributed joins<p>- native geospatial index and datatypes<p>- lots of new SQL surface area<p>- concurrency improvements<p>- analytic optimizer<p>- Spark, HDFS, and S3 connectors
Our company (Simbiose) recently did a strong stress test with memSQL with billions of JSON rows, using complex JOIN queries and the results are simply AMAZING.
<p><pre><code> > While you are free to use Community for your projects,
> MemSQL does not support or endorse using it in production.
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(<a href="http://blog.memsql.com/memsql-community-edition/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.memsql.com/memsql-community-edition/</a>)<p>Ehhh. Do they mean that the Community Edition is only usable for development?
The CloudFormation cluster generator tool they have is really cool. (<a href="http://cloud.memsql.com/cloudformation" rel="nofollow">http://cloud.memsql.com/cloudformation</a>) The templates it generates are pretty complex, I wonder if that is hand written or using some kind tool.. would anyone be able to shed some light on how they did it? Do you think most of it is hand coded? I've been playing around with the .NET SDK in VisualStudio 2013.. it includes a cloud formation project type, and you can type out the JSON with Intellisense which is pretty cool.
Would love to hear from any existing users on their experiences so far (assuming that's allowed under previous licenses). Choosing a database is one of those decisions where I tend to go with the safest, well known option, but maybe I'm missing out.
Slightly off-topic: The font weight is too light to read properly on my PC (Widows 8.1, Chrome). Stopped reading because it was too much effort to try and read.