I didn't mean to imply that the new generation of devs are lazy and stupid. They (and you apparently) are influenced by the perception that RDBMSs are relics no

I didn't mean to imply that the new generation of devs are lazy and stupid. They (and you apparently) are influenced by the perception that RDBMSs are relics not designed with modern hardware in mind. This perception is wrong. Vertica and VoltDB were both designed from the beginning to be distributed. SQL Server and Oracle were not designed that way in the beginning but incorporated those capabilities over time. All of these are incredibly sophisticated, modern, high performance RDBMSs. None of them can be used effectively without some effort to acquire relational concepts, modeling, SQL, etc. This is where the "database community" has lost ground to the prevailing NoSQL solutions IMO, by not making it easier for new devs to plug and play. One example of the sort of thing that could make RDBMSs more plug-and-play is Vertica's flex tables - a schema-free, super flexible blob of a table that lets you move forward without having to completely define your relational model.