Yup. The fact that it has been around for 46 years and dominant in its problem space for most of that time is pretty compelling too. In the 90s it was going to

Yup. The fact that it has been around for 46 years and dominant in its problem space for most of that time is pretty compelling too. In the 90s it was going to be replaced by object databases, said the hype. In the aughts it was up against Mongo and Couch and the like. The pretenders to throne keep coming and going.