Distributed DBs and traditional RDBMS serve different purposes. Most – by which I mean the overwhelming majority – companies do not need a distributed DB, they

Distributed DBs and traditional RDBMS serve different purposes. Most – by which I mean the overwhelming majority – companies do not need a distributed DB, they need better schema and queries. My fear is companies without in-house RDBMS expertise see these products as a way to continue to avoid getting that expertise.