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Facebook, Google, Twitter and LinkedIn announced a brand new collaboration among their engineer teams called WebScaleSQL.

A spokesperson for Facebook tells us that the corporations are “working to share a standard set of changes to the upstream MySQL branch as a way to be available via open source,” and “will include contributions from MySQL engineering teams in any respect four companies.”

WebScaleSQL will expand on existing efforts by the MySQL community, and we will be able to continue to trace the upstream branch that’s the latest, production-ready release (currently MySQL 5.6), Facebook says.

So far, the engineers have arrange a system for collaborating, reviewing code, and reporting bugs. One engineer can propose a transformation, and another from another company will review the code and offer feedback. If an agreement is reached, will probably be pushed to the WebScaleSQL branch for everyone else. Each company can then further customize WebScaleSQL for his or her own needs.

The engineers have already made an automatic framework for you to run and publish the result of MySQL’s built-in test system, a set of stress tests and a prototype automated performance testing system. They’ve also made changes to code structure and existing tests in addition performance improvements, and contours to make WebScaleSQL scaling easier.

You can read more concerning the specifics here.

The companies intend to maintain their WebScaleSQL work open and to continue to follow the foremost up-to-date upstream version of MySQL.

“As long because the MySQL community releases continue, we’re committed to remaining a branch – and never a fork – of MySQL,” says Facebook software engineer Steaphan Greene.

Those who like to become involved with the project can take a look at this site.

Image via WebScaleSQL.org

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