Relational databases are notoriously ornery and resistant to being distributed across the cloud and the global cloud’s multiple data centers, multiple regions in multiple countries stocked by multiple service providers – and that includes that popular favorite MySQL, used by some of the largest web-facing organizations for their mission-critical apps.
Well, a start-up by the name of GenieDB says it’s been working on a commercial solution for MySQL for the last five years supported by $3.5 million in seed money and has just put out its GenieDB Enterprise 2.0 widgetry. It’s a private preview with general availability due by the end of June.