ericfrenkiel

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by ericfrenkiel 10y ago
@Dang, commending you for leaving the comment in place - repugnant as it may be. This in stark contrast to the recent censorship at Reddit and /r/news. Not deleting this reflects the maturity of YC and by definition refutes the ve
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The wealthy in Florence today are the same families as 600 years ago(blogs.wsj.com)
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by ericfrenkiel 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback here! Can I put you in touch with one of our PMs? If so, email me at eric at MemSQL dot com Thanks
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by ericfrenkiel 10y ago
Join our slack channel where there are hundreds of developers on the channel. memsql.com/community
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MemSQL (YC W11) Raises $36M Series C(blog.memsql.com)
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
MemSQL used to be just in-memory. It added a second storage engine designed to hold data on disk using a column store.
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
Agreed - a lack of joins means it's not real SQL.
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
Check out MemSQL Community Edition which has these features
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Mesosphere raises $73.5M with Microsoft participating(venturebeat.com)
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
Common hasn't been close to 10% in a loong while - common is likely presently valued at >75% of Preferred. Anything 1/9 to 1/11 is strictly seed-level discounts for common to preferred. Dropbox may even be at a point where
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
The general gist of RAMCloud makes sense, but the value is hidden by the academic perspective. The notion of fitting tons of data into memory is happening. As one of the founders of MemSQL, a YC company that ships a distributed in-memory da
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Millennials Coming of Age(goldmansachs.com)
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Magnitude 5.1 seismic disturbance recorded in North Korea(cnn.com)
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
It's the 32 GB RAM chassis that is most exciting since it's no longer ungodly expensive. In the same way that 8 GB is ubiquitous today for the low-end, 16 GB will soon become the standard.
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
RAM is the new disk - we're seeing a phase change whereby most data can be held permanently in RAM. For a laptop, this might not a lot of sense (until non-volatile RAM arrives), but for servers, RAM density is enabling multi-TB dataset
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
If I could downvote this for being a sensationalist article, I would! Here's the operative phrase: "The convergence of the trend lines above is driven primarily by a sharp drop in the rate of motor vehicle fatalities since 1950.&q
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Spark SQL Performance Boost(blog.memsql.com)
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High-Res Photos from NASA Moon Missions Added to Flickr(blog.flickr.net)
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Marine Corps’ women-in-combat experiment gets mixed results(washingtonpost.com)
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
It's commercial, but MemSQL Community Edition scales horizontally. It's free and there are no capacity or scaling limits.
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
Hi Steve, this is Eric, one of the cofounders; to answer your question, it's about combining a few ideas together that make MemSQL a database that delivers on its promises. They are: - Data resides in memory with lock-free data structu
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MemSQL Community Edition Launches on AWS and Azure(blog.memsql.com)
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
Check out MemSQL's Community Edition for this very use case. We shipped MemSQL with an open-source multi-threaded, bi-directional connector to Spark. The DB has two storage engines: in-memory row tables, and on-disk column tables for e
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MemSQL is hiring SEs and software engineers in SF and NYC(memsql.com)
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
you can do the very same - MemSQL uses the MySQL-wire protocol so it works with any MySQL driver and tool.
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
- row-level locking -> yes we use MVCC and take a row level write lock when necessary for consistency - independent transaction coordinators at data nodes -> we have a tier called "aggregators" that act as transaction coordi
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
Of course we remember you. Please stop by our new office! You are right about the commodity hardware. The other difference with HANA is that MemSQL rowstores are in memory for high throughput applications and columnstores can be stored or f
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
for critical deployments, the enterprise version has high availability, cross data center replication, and more. you can use the free edition however you please.
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
http://docs.memsql.com/latest/faq/#what-is-memsql-not-for
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by ericfrenkiel 11y ago
Eric, one of the cofounders, here. happy to answer any questions on MemSQL 4 and the community edition. Some new features in MemSQL 4: - fully distributed joins - native geospatial index and datatypes - lots of new SQL surface area - concur

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