I can highly recommend his video "Everything you learned in your DBMS class is wrong" http://slideshot.epfl.ch/play/suri_stonebraker http://slideshot.epfl.ch/pl

I can highly recommend his video "Everything you learned in your DBMS class is wrong" http://slideshot.epfl.ch/play/suri_stonebraker http://slideshot.epfl.ch/play/suri_stonebraker It opened my eyes to why traditional block-based RDBMS's were definitely going to go away and replaced by in-memory engines.