Comment by cturner

It's particularly funny when the stack fallacy is held by database providers, because databases are the wrong tool for most of the jobs they get used for at the moment.

Current usage of the database uses it as a loose, adhoc, difficult-to-maintain, polling-based API between multiple applications.

The future perspective looks back on our time, shaking its head at the way people use databases for everything in the same way that we shake our heads at bloodletting.

Oracle's business model is (1) convincing people to use platforms they shouldn't be using and then (2) selling the victims ongoing hacks and services to work around the limitations of the model.

Amazon's software services won't be build on a database. They'll be built using a decentralised messaging platform.