company database architect that doesn't like rdbms?

" When you think data, you chuckle at terabytes, relish petabytes, and dream beyond exabytes. You think RDBMS may be the problem, rather than always looking to it as the solution."

I have seen that rdbms is not the perfect solution for everything. For example, google has their own database. Verisign has a database they wrote in C that does billions of executions/day. I read that facebook is using some kind of graphing database.

However, when I work with internet developers (it is almost always java guys who do this), they tend to run their mouths, but have never worked on anything at all and deliver garbage. The java guys at Fannie Mae tried to ignore the database for their mortgage backed security application. They spent $600 million (this number came from their executives) and they ended up throwing it all away.

Anyone have experience with people who actually know anything when they talk about this type of thing? here is a short note, I found about a database product that my space uses.

http://www.cio.com/article/361313/Startup_Launches_Internet_Scale_Database

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