"[denormalizing for performance reasons is] the only way to make big, massive databases work correctly" How about a column-oriented database? http://en.wikiped

"[denormalizing for performance reasons is] the only way to make big, massive databases work correctly" How about a column-oriented database? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS Would that help much? (I don't know much about databases :S)