Re: an other provokative question??

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> Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
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> kindlt explain how??

This bit is a hint:
"Column-oriented databases -- such as the one built by Stonebraker's
latest start-up, Andover, Mass.-based Vertica Systems Inc. -- store data
vertically in table columns rather than in successive rows."

Mr. Stonebraker's company sells column oriented databases. So of course
the other methods must be "obsolete".

It actually is a good idea for some operations. Database warehouses
seem to benefit from that storage scheme. All of the database systems
that I know of that use this column-oriented scheme are in-memory
database systems. I don't know if Mr. Stonebraker's is also.

There is at least one open source database that uses columns to store
the data:
http://monetdb.cwi.nl/