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MemSQL's Eric Frenkiel: Open source is a marketing channel, not business model
“I think open source is, is fantastic. It's a great marketing channel. I don't think it's a great business model.”
MemSQL's Eric Frenkiel argues analytics cannot be performed in key-value stores
“I mean I think, I mean, it's, you can't do analytics in key value.”
MemSQL's Eric Frenkiel argues on-premise infrastructure costs a fraction of AWS EC2
“I have a lot of you know, folks that spend tens of thousands of dollars a month on EC-II and they could do it for a fraction of the price if they did it on premise.”
Frenkiel: MemSQL on EC2 achieves 1ms latency vs 60ms for MySQL
“Whenever you go with MM-SQL on EC-II, for example, you will see, like, one millisecond response times, and a Postgres or a MySQL is on the order of 60.”
Eric Frenkiel criticizes MongoDB for relying on a global write lock
“Mongo also has a global write lock. So one writer will block everyone else until it completes.”
Eric Frenkiel: MemSQL would not exist if launched as an open-source project
“Fundamentally I don't think MemSQL would exist if we had to go into it the open source way.”
Eric Frenkiel: Writing a lightweight parser is easier than unstructured analysis
“What we typically see with unstructured data is it's far easier to write a lightweight parser around that log file, for example, and get it structured very readily.”