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> Read Stonebraker's "The End of an Architectural Era"

I tried, but it lost me in section 2.3:

>It seems plausible that the next decade will bring domination by shared-nothing computer systems, often called grid computing or blade computing.

No, it doesn't seem plausible at all. This has been, by some accounts, the future of computing, since at least the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer

But shared-nothing is just too darned hard to program for.

Also, main memory is still scarce. We're just barely up to the 1TB of just some of the (small, by today's standards) databases the paper mentions. Ironically, it seemed to emphasis traditional business database needs over what might happen with the tech industry itself, which has turned out to be the main driving force behind database usage (and data creation).