That's not complaining about the relational model at all, he's complaining about implementation details of common RDBMSes being obsolete, as they're based on ro

That's not complaining about the relational model at all, he's complaining about implementation details of common RDBMSes being obsolete, as they're based on row-oriented storage, slow disks, small memory, and limited concurrency. Things like Amazon Redshift are still relational but make radically different decisions on most of those points. Edit: that talk is well worth reading, btw. I wonder why he completely ignores flash though?