And If anything goes awry, MySQL could always “fork” the development of InnoDB and create another version, he said, although it would prefer not to. MySQL faces other challenges too.

MySQL AB is eyeing a November release for Version 5 of its open-source database, a major upgrade that the company hopes will make it a bigger player among enterprise customers.

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The MySQL Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter engineering teams have joined forces to create their own version of MySQL, WebScaleSQL for their monster-sized databases.