I have serious problems with the relational data model, but I do think he raises a good point. This relational stuff has REALLY strong fundamentals and is battl

I have serious problems with the relational data model, but I do think he raises a good point. This relational stuff has REALLY strong fundamentals and is battle tested. There are a lot of people out there shouting 'scalability!' without understanding the roots of their problems. Is a fully distributed persistent k/v store what's needed for many applications? Certainly. But that doesn't mean we should throw out the relational model for every application.