How to turn MySQL into blazing fast NoSQL

This is an interesting read originally appeared on O'Reilly Radar. Here Edd Dumbill explains how to Bypass the SQL parser to use MySQL's raw speed.The trend for NoSQL stores such as memcache for fast key-value storage should give us pause for thought: what have regular database vendors been doing all this time? An important new project, HandlerSocket, seeks to leverage MySQL's raw speed for