We all believe that the traditional enterprise data warehouse (EDW) will evolve from being relational to non-relational within five to 10 years.

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Another implication of the idea of being-as-love is that being is intrinsically relational, not individualistic.

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Relational databases went from narrow use cases to being used for multiple tasks all over the enterprise with APIs, apps on top, and eventually through systems like ERP, they became the center of the enterprise.

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