Design & Dev Open source data grows up: Choosing MySQL, NoSQL, or both March 4, 2014 - 4:16 pm John Engates is the CTO of Rackspace Hosting and an evangelist for the open cloud.

At the NoSQL Now conference, held last month in San Jose, Oracle MySQL developer John David Duncan outlined a number of earlier attempts to provide alternative non-SQL access to MySQL Cluster ...

With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra.

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So we felt that would be a good way to provide NoSQL access,” Ulin said. Oracle’s thinking is that the Memecached interface can serve as an alternative access point for MySQL itself.

With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra.

Oracle’s own planned NoSQL access for future editions of MySQL would draw heavily from HandlerSocket, though it would stick more closely to the Memecached API, Ulin said.