I have recently encountered this text in which the author claims very
high MySQL speedups for simple queries (7.5 times faster than MySQL,
twice faster than memcached) by reading the data directly from InnoDB
where possible (MySQL is still used for writing and for complex
queries.) Knowing that faster DB is always good, I thought this would be
an interesting thing to consider :)
http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-story-f…