He characterized Google as giving unstructured people access to unstructured data whereas MySQL gives structured people access to structured data, meaning that MySQL is targeted towards developers who understand how to structure data “properly”. A strange polarization in my view, but I guess he’s trying to put clear blue water between the Google approach and the traditional database approach. At Talis, we don’t see this distinction at all and our core platform technology, Bigfoot, unifies structured and unstructured data.He went on to describe his vision of a skype for database access, combining my data, your data and public data into the next generation OLAP, running a trillion transactions per day. An example could be weather data and he asked what if you could run a SQL statement across all the data sources in the world, something like SELECT CurrentWindDirection, CurrentWindSpeed FROM AllTheWorldsWeatherStations, MyOwnWeatherStation, MyFriendsWeatherStation.

mysql to promote the data web, seems a bit unaware of semweb tech though, but one can hope

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