By 'invert the computing paradigm' they seem to mean 'reinvent IBM MVS and CICS from the 1970s'. Of course, it's still around and dominates some industries, but hey, where's the marketing spin in that?
(one might imagine that a microkernel schedules cores [time] and provides block access/mapping to storage layers [space]; while the DB layers would build first locking and tables, and then transactions, on top of that; after which come applications...)