While it is clearly propaganda for VoltDB, it does a good job of adressing some of the myths of SQL-slowness that we don't see very often. Usually a lot of peo

While it is clearly propaganda for VoltDB, it does a good job of adressing some of the myths of SQL-slowness that we don't see very often. Usually a lot of people saying SQL is slow is because they don't really use it well. He doesn't talk about indexing and statistics [1] for example. But he talks about ODBC/JDBC because, while it is usually fast enough, a lot of people overlook the fact that these interfaces hold transactions externally. Besides, the presentations comes from Stonebreaker himself; of (Turing prize, Von Neumann Medal, ingres, postgres, cstore, vertica, hstore, SciDB, Tamr, Streambase)-fame. [1] http://use-the-index-luke.com/ http://use-the-index-luke.com/ is a very good resource for this.