Michael Stonebraker on why row storage is obsolete

Vertica co-founder Michael Stonebraker recently made waves with his claim that the traditional RDBMS is a legacy system, and that row-based data storage is insufficient to the needs of the enterprise today. In this episode of JavaWorld's Java Technology Insider, Howard Wen speaks with Dr. Stonebraker about the advantages of switching to column-oriented data storage, and also gets his candid thoughts about the future of data management in the era of Web 2.0.