Alibaba joins WebScaleSQL

Alibaba's MySQL team has joined the WebScaleSQL project, contributing bug fixes, performance improvements, enhanced large-scale parallelism, and micro-optimizations in compression. This collaboration is expected to accelerate progress on planned replication and GTID server-side fixes, async client features, logical read-ahead, query throttling, improved server-level thread pooling, large InnoDB page support, and memory usage reduction.