[hyc_symas]

"Just getting to the point" ? OpenLDAP has been architected this way for ~20 years. I think the same could be said for MySQL, as well as SQLServer (built on top of ESENT/JET). Large monolithic data stores are an obvious anti-pattern, reflects short-sighted design process.

[digikata]

Ha, you have a good point. I think my comment was directed more to "distributed cloud store" applications, much more so than databases. That begs the question - then what capabilities have those apps been focusing on that they didn't get from existing databases (or thought that they didn't get from existing databases)...