“Matt Asay has the news that IBM has taken the decision to
discontinue the development of the solidDB for MySQL database
engine following its acquisition of in-memory database specialist
Solid Information Technology. The official announcement is here on
SourceForge.“As Dhiren Patel, community relations manager writes: ‘This
in-memory technology, and not Solid’s open source offering, was the
key driver behind IBM’s acquisition. As a result, I regret to
inform you that, effective immediately, we will not be continuing
further development on solidDB for MySQL…'”