[SmellTheGlove]

Star schema still has its (very prominent) place with many applications. If my information has some natural structure, I'm not going to go out of my way to un-structure it, and star is sometimes the data structure that best suits the data itself.

[badminton1]

Yes sure, but it's really hard to scale. Scale on horizontally, not vertically. Vertical scalability is not true scalability.