The ScaleDB Storage Engine: Enabling High Performance and Scalability Using Materialized Views and a Shared-Disk Clustering Architecture Moshe Shadmon (ScaleDB) Slides can be downloaded at http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/21/The%20ScaleDB%20Storage%20Engine_%20%20Enabling%20High%20Performance%20and%20Scalability%20Using%20Materialized%20Views%20and%20a%20Shared-Disk%20Clustering%20Architecture%20Presentation.ppt The official conference page is at http://www.mysqlconf.com/mysql2009/public/schedule/detail/7112

Slides are online (and downloadable) at http://www.slideshare.net/Sheeri/scale-db-preso-for-boston-my-sql-meetup-92009 Mike Hogan, CEO of ScaleDB spoke about ScaleDB at the Boston MySQL User Group in September 2009: ScaleDB is a storage engine for MySQL that delivers shared-disk clustering. It has been described as the Oracle RAC of MySQL. Using ScaleDB, you can scale your cluster by simply adding nodes, without partitioning your data. Each node has full read/write capability, eliminating the need for slaves, while delivering cluster-level load balancing. ScaleDB is looking for additional beta testers, sign up at http://www.scaledb.com

A quick introduction into MapReduce.