Comment by tsahyt

There's a lot going on and that's the way it has been for quite a while now but as someone who's working with databases only marginally at the moment, I'm left wondering: What's wrong with RDBMS? Sure it's nice to have a simple Key-Value Store for applications that don't need much more than this but bottom line, the relational model is very powerful, albeit quite abstract, and most data we need to deal with can be made to fit into this model. We have a working, declarative query language that Just Works(TM), for which we have written very good optimizers. The various instances of such DMBS range from small-scale use (for example, SQLite) to really-huge (Postgres, Oracle, etc). So, to sum it up: Exactly why should we abandon this?