Distributed databases are going to replace RDMS?

Richard Jones of Last.fm just posted an overview with a great deal of engineering insight:

http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distributed-key-value-stores/

Swaroop CH of Yahoo wrote an overview of distributed DBs:

http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Distributed_Storage_Systems

The End of an Architectural Era(It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)

http://www.vldb.org/conf/2007/papers/industrial/p1150-stonebraker.pdf

The HBase performance

http://www.mail-archive.com/hadoop-user@lucene.apache.org/msg02540.html