By Ilya Grigorik on February 13, 2009 It took Ruby some time to go from an infant research project by Matz to a language we've all come to know so well. Now, another Japanese developer (Mikio Hirabayashi) has all the potential to repeat this cycle with his new database project: Tokyo Cabinet. Developed and sponsored by Mixi Inc. (Japanese Facebook), it is an incredibly fast, and feature rich datab