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I saw Mike Stonebraker while he was on his VoltDB "tour" a few years back. He makes the same arguments. In his talk he walked through the history of database technology and discussed a similar "war" between CODASYL and SQL. He framed that debate in terms of the split between separating the concerns of your data's structure (schema) from application logic.

Fairly or not, he suggested the current fight between noSQL/Schemaless vs SQL/RDBMS was being fought in ignorance of all that went on in the 70s.