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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. Re:They're not mutually exclusive. by jd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How on earth can anyone call C-Store open source? It hasn't featured on Slashdot, there are no Freshmeat records, it's not part of Fedora Core, the author hasn't declared himself a god - I mean, these are vital features present in all true F/L/OSS projects!

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