Are Relational Databases Obsolete?
Posted in Databases on Friday, the 7th of September, 2007.
I found this hilarious.
Michael Stonebraker, co-creator of the Ingres and Postgres database management systems, recently made a blog posting suggesting that column-oriented database engines (example: Vertica) might someday triumph over the traditional row-oriented engines (example: every other database engine you know) in some situations, perhaps most notably the data-warehousing field. It's an interesting post, and well worth reading.
Somebody else thought so. Computer World reported the story under the title:
Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete.
Slightly sensationalist, but whatever. And so naturally the story turned up on Slashdot as:
Are Relational Databases Obsolete?
Did anybody read TFA? I doubt it.
The real shame is that, I suspect this is how most 'real' journalism happens too.