I agree with what you say, but I think we also need to consider cost as well as capability of the underlying product. Introducing cost massively changes how th

I agree with what you say, but I think we also need to consider cost as well as capability of the underlying product. Introducing cost massively changes how that equation stacks up. "How many tps can I run given a budget in the form of these 6 available servers". Well the boxes are under spec for what you want to achieve with an RDBMS, but yeah no problem with XXX nosql product.