haha what a crock by a sad hack who continues to rely on sensationalism (go read his archives, when has he ever been right?)

guess what folks, lots of people care about transactions. the "scaling" crowd balks at any notion of referential integrity v. performance because the fact is, what is in their databases isn't really important. if you run an airline booking system, stock order fulfillment system, credit card transaction system etc etc etc., you have real money riding on the integrity of the database. these people have been using oracle and its rdbms competitors for decades and will be using them decades from now, or something that provides the same integrity level. the notion that these systems will be replaced by shmem or sqlite or some other cub-scout retrieval system is absurd