Yeah me too. I have the feel that developers find themselves attacking the problem of compression, entropy and abstraction of meaning more and more often these days. Which I see as a good future, while I hope that some convergence of the evolutionary better DBs happens. Commercial DBs rot and die in popularity compared to opensource solutions, which marks the value of our time, that is cooperation and usefulness, over individual benefit.

Can't wait for 2014, and not just because 2013 was a bad year.