Michael Stonebraker on why row storage is obsolete
Vertica co-founder Michael Stonebraker 
recently made waves with his claim that the traditional RDBMS is a legacy system, and that row-based data storage is insufficient
to the needs of the enterprise today. In this episode of JavaWorld's Java Technology Insider, Howard Wen speaks with Dr. Stonebraker about the advantages of switching to column-oriented data storage, and also gets his
candid thoughts about the future of data management in the era of Web 2.0.
- See "Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete" (JavaWorld, September 2007) for more from Michael Stonebraker about the future of database technology.
- Learn more about Vertica Systems and the column-oriented database.
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