The Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is All Wrong by Michael Stonebraker Traditional RDBMS Wisdom Data is in disk block formatting (heavily encoded) With a main memory buffer pool of blocks Query plans Optimize CPU, I/O Fundamental operation is read a row Indexing via B-trees Clustered or unclustered Traditional RDBMS Wisdom Dynamic row-level locking Aries-style write-ahead log Replication (asyn