There may be a good point in here somewhere, but it's not clear what it is. Relational databases don't scale, so... try CouchDB! or Drizzle! ...which also don't scale. What?

For a more complete list of RDBMS-killing science projects, try http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distrib... (discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=440687 )