Interesting as the article is, it's difficult to disagree re: database bottlenecks. Whilst the NoSql world is iterating away I wonder how much is going on behin

Interesting as the article is, it's difficult to disagree re: database bottlenecks. Whilst the NoSql world is iterating away I wonder how much is going on behind the scenes at Oracle, Microsoft et al in regard to asynchronous sql. I guess it's a trade off between transactions and dirty reads?