Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete.
As a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, in the early 1970s, Michael Stonebraker co-created the Ingres and Postgres technology that underlies many leading relational databases today: Microsoft Corp.'s SQL Server, Sybase Inc.'s Adaptive Server Enterprise, Ingres Corp.'s eponymous product, IBM's Informix, and others.
But Stonebraker now argues that relational databases, also known as RDBMSes, are "long in the tooth" and "should be considered legacy technology." read the whole article here: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9034619
So he does say that for OLTP row based (RDMBS) are faster
If you want a Data warehouse you would build cubes and data marts anyway and pre aggregate, a normal person doesn't run a data warehouse from a OLTP DB anyway because it would be to slow.
What do you think? Speculation?
What ever happened to Object Oriented Databases? These vendors have been screaming for the last 5 years that the RDMBS is dead.