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by Web2Con on November 10th, 2006

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What is "The Great Database in the Sky?"

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  • by Web2Con on November 10th, 2006

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    Response from Marten Mikos, CEO of MySQL:

    If we look forward and see the entire world is going online, we have 1 billion people on the internet and 2 billion people using mobile phones, so what does that then mean with all of these web companies building this new society which functions on the web? What does that really mean for how you manage data? So here’s my thinking as of today. Somehow it seems to me that Google is the service that gives unstructured people access to unstructured data. And we at MySQL have always been focused on giving structured people access to structured data. And that data of course is structured because it’s sorted in rows and columns and has attributes. Google has access to all the data in the world as long as it exists in electronic form. So what I wanted to know is could we do the same for structured data?

    So that’s the great database in the sky. There’s a great book called Innovation Happens Elsewhere, which explains why open source is so strong. There’s always more intelligence outside your company. And the same applies to data, data is being created all over the place. And each of you here have a list of something somewhere, you collect some structured data that you are passionately building up for your personal use. What if you open sourced that? What if you shared that so you could aggregate and correlate that and combine it with everyone’s data? Suddenly you would’ve created the world’s largest database.

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