I suspect the subject of this post triggers the following questions:
1. Don't you mean the fall/death of
Relational Databases?
2. Does anyone use these
anymore?
3. What are these?
Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) are alive and kicking as expressed eloquently in this excerpt from a book titled "Funding A Revolution":
Large-scale computer applications require rapid access to large
amounts of data. A computerized checkout system in a supermarket
must track the entire product line of the market. Airline
reservation systems are used at many locations simultaneously to
place passengers on numerous flights on different dates. Library
computers store millions of entries and access citations from
hundreds of publications. Transaction processing systems in banks
and brokerage houses keep the accounts that generate international
flows of capital. World Wide Web search engines scan thousands of
Web pages to produce quantitative responses to queries almost
instantly. Thousands of small businesses and organizations use
databases to track everything from inventory and personnel to DNA
sequences and pottery shards from archaeological digs.
Thus, databases not only represent significant infrastructure
for computer applications, but they also process the transactions
and exchanges that drive the U.S. economy.
My only addition to the excerpt above is that the impact of
databases extends beyond the U.S. economy. We are talking about the
global economy. And this will be so for all of time!
I came across this page while enriching the links in one of my
earlier "history"
related posts about
Relational Database Technology pioneers. During this effort I
also stumbled across another historic document titled: "1995
SQL Reunion".