It's from 2009, and based on technology ideas from 2007 (the nanowire paper was published at http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v2/n10/full/nnano.2007.291.html

It's from 2009, and based on technology ideas from 2007 (the nanowire paper was published at http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v2/n10/full/nnano.2007.291.html http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v2/n10/full/nnano.2007.2... ). Rather, it more generically says "To claim that [similar] technology [though not super-fast SSDs] will not be developed in the next 10-15 years is a bit pessimistic. To start new projects using RDBMS is simply short-sighted." It's now halfway through that range, and there's been no evidence that using a RDBMS is looking any more foolhardy than it was in 2009. If anything, I've developed a lot more relational databases during that period, because of sqlite. "what computer programs really need to persist their data is a way to transparently store objects to disk, and restore them at a later time" That's incomplete. Databases are also good at maintaining indices, even in the face of live updates. I would rather let the database implement the index than write my own and only have the database persist my homebrew code. Especially if I need to implement any sort of basic text search.