MySQL - The Great Database in the Sky

An interview with Mårten Mickos at the Web 2.0 Summit


1B on the internet, 2b on mobile.

What if we shared data?

Google: unstructured people (consumers) get unstructured data. MySQL gives structured users structured data. Could MySQL extend this to all data as Google has? This is the Great Database in the Sky idea.

Innovation happens elsewhere > Data happens everywhere.

Open source your data.

My data + your data + public data = next gen OLAP.

It's already out there; just not connected yet.

What if we could Skype all the data?

Example: Weather Data

What if you could access the weather data in real time from across the world? Follow El Nino, plan your sailing trip. Consumer behavior, Real estate, travel, events, etc.

It is now possible.

Would need a DNS for data servers. Routing may be an issue. How do you make data definitions understandable? $? TEchnologies:
* RSS
* Atom
* Jabber
* HTML
* HTTP
* XML
* SQL

What would it take?

* Willingness to open the data
* Brokerage to keep track of who has what
* New technology for accessing the data

The Data is the Platform

Marten would like to partner with us. marten@mysql.com

Q: How is this different than the semantic web?
A: Semantic is much more than this. S contains unstructured data.