For context, the first NoSQL interface for MySQL was: http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.ca/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-story-for.html http://yoshinorimatsunob

For context, the first NoSQL interface for MySQL was: http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.ca/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-story-for.html http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.ca/2010/10/using-mysql-as... (It's appeared on HN a few times). The MySQL team decided to run with a more standard memcached interface, and MySQL actually embeds memcached to do this (with MySQL as backend storage). Despite being read-only, the over 1M number highlights a lot work thats been done for multi-core scalability. This test was on a 48 score machine.. that was a distant dream a few years ago on MySQL 5.1.