Why your RDBMS fails at scale

New relations

Published February 2018

It’s been nearly 40 years since the birth of the relational database, and while the RDBMS is still prevalent and useful, massive changes in the way we produce, store, and use data are quickly making the relational database obsolete.

The government really pushed the boundaries of what a database could handle all those years ago. But in this era, it’s the Internet giants that have changed the game when it comes to quickly storing and retrieving massive amounts of data.