The previous post might have made you think I don't care much for MySql, and you'd be right. But there is some interesting innovation going on in the MySql world - it's just not in MySql itself.
Drizzle looks like it could be to MySql what FireFox was to Mozilla - a cleaned-up, stripped-down version that improves all the good stuff and leaves the dreck behind. Here's a terrific talk by Brian Aker (former architect for MySql and one of the movers behind Drizzle) that made me want to go out and try Drizzle in spite of my aversion to MySql.
Infobright is one of the new breed analytic DBMS's. It's build on MySql, but uses its own column-oriented storage engine, data compression, and optimizer. It looks interesting, and I see that one of their technical advisors is Roger Bodamer, who I worked for at OuterBay Technologies - a startup that was bought by HP in 2006. Roger is also the SVP of Engineering at 10gen, the company behind MongoDB - so it looks like he's sitting on both sides of the new SQL/NoSql fence. Smart guy.
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