Stonebraker: Everything You Learned in Your DBMS Class is Wrong
Stonebraker: One Size Fits None - (Everything You Learned in Your DBMS Class is Wrong) Great presentation about the design (logic) of the NewSQL-DB VoltDB and why all traditional DBMS wisdom is wrong.
Referenced Concepts:
Anti-Caching by DeBrabant
Column-based databases: International innovation award to Martin Kersten