http://blog.jooq.org/2013/08/24/mit-prof-michael-stonebraker...
htsql seems very interesting. I should soon blog about your product and critique. Have you been publishing elsewhere?
Things like Amazon Redshift are still relational but make radically different decisions on most of those points.
Edit: that talk is well worth reading, btw. I wonder why he completely ignores flash though?
He's arguing against multithreaded systems in favour of a partitioned OLTP platform like H-Store (VoltDB). I didn't see anything about the relational model being "all wrong". It works well for lots of scenarios, and turning it into a KV store is also straightforward.
As far as SQL, I think people agree it's not the best query language. QUEL may have won, but Stonebraker says[1]: "The only reason SQL won in the marketplace was because IBM released DB2 in 1984 without changing the System R query language."
1: http://iggyfernandez.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/nocoug-journal...
BTW, the person asking the last couple of questions is Ed Bugnion, one of the co-founders of VMWare. He is a faculty now at EPFL.