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Are Relational Databases Obsolete?

Posted by kdawson on from the long-in-the-tooth dept.

jpkunst sends us to Computerworld for a look at Michael Stonebraker's opinion that RDBMSs "should be considered legacy technology." Computerworld adds some background and analysis to Stonebraker's comments, which appear in a new blog, The Database Column. Stonebraker co-created the Ingres and Postgres technology while a researcher at UC Berkeley in the early 1970s. He predicts that "column stores will take over the [data] warehouse market over time, completely displacing row stores."

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  1. Mod Article -1 (Author doesn't get it) by DrinkDr.Pepper · · Score: 5, Informative

    Relational databases aren't being obsoleted. Some schema design heuristics are.

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  2. well by stoolpigeon · · Score: 5, Informative

    every article linked makes it clear that this is about warehousing as opposed to oltp. so is the technology dead? no - can it do everything? no

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