His theses in the older article are that A) More complex relationships between more disparate data are becoming more useful; B) It's hard to establish new entit

His theses in the older article are that A) More complex relationships between more disparate data are becoming more useful; B) It's hard to establish new entity relationships or new entities in a relational database. B) Not really true. Learn relational theory. It's definitely easier than updating data structures, file formats, and all affected routines, which seems to be what he's suggesting. A) True. But absolutely nothing about this is easier to deal with by not using a database than by using a database. Loads of new flatfiles, query APIs, graphs, and datamining algorithms don't mean it's time to throw out the DB. It just means things are harder.