I truly don't know how such a ridiculous article made it to the top of Hacker News: The widely accepted problem with MySQL is that it wasn’t built for webscale

I truly don't know how such a ridiculous article made it to the top of Hacker News: The widely accepted problem with MySQL is that it wasn’t built for webscale applications [snip] and: In Stonebraker’s opinion, “old SQL (as he calls it) is good for nothing” and needs to be “sent to the home for retired software.” After all, he explained, SQL was created decades ago before the web, mobile devices and sensors forever changed how and how often databases are accessed. Then: However, it was quickly discovered that while NoSQL might be faster and scale better, it did so at the expense of ACID consistency. This is ridiculous. He's making claims about a whole group of software that's only definition is a feature or attribute that they don't have. And it's flat out false. Look at Riak (a key/value store) and how it allows you to tune these parameters on each query or write. The whole article is genuinely a massive trolling piece.