Do we still need relational databases?

[#1]

Dears,

will this new in-memory technology reduce the need of a relational database?

There are also rumors about a column-based database... are we talking about the same product?

Thanks,

Federico Biavati

[Former Member]

i don't think we can call in-memory a product. for now, it's an idea or a concept which starts at the lowest or the most fundamental layer of the architecture - data base. logic and presentation will follow.

in my mind, we don't need ERs and are throwing away 30+ years of primary/foreign key coding.