What bugged me most about the OP was the attitude of "we're done, shut up with this other stuff." The OP didn't say that at all, but instead observed (in a man

What bugged me most about the OP was the attitude of "we're done, shut up with this other stuff." The OP didn't say that at all, but instead observed (in a manner that you have quite overwhelmingly failed to refute at all, instead relying upon emotives and non sequiturs, betraying a bizarre and completely unsupported defensiveness that seems to be some variation "but it's new, man! It's new!") that everything old is new again over and over again. People have been trying these things for literally decades, and many of the current products that lead categories have some elements of those designs. If someone is pitching a very old idea as (r)evolutionary, it is worthy of discussion, whether that offends your sensibilities or not. And it's odd that you mentioned MySQL, given that yes, it did face to "criticisms" because it made the same old mistakes that so many products before made. FUD? Do you think since then Oracle became more like MySQL, or the opposite? I'll answer that for you -- MySQL abandoned all of the supposed "advantages" that were birthed largely in ignorance and adopted the designs of the products that came before.