Articles or discussions that "attack" RDBMS and/or relational:

* http://orastory.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/the-dearth-of-oracle-rdbms-and-contracting/

* RecordBasedDatabase (What some may call "web databases")

Is there a trend away from RDBMS?

* ''No.  Having worked through the RDBMS suspicion of the 80s and the OODBMS hype of the 90s, I know RDBMSes are stronger now than they've been since their inception.  Almost every dynamic Web site is driven by a SQL DBMS, and true relational languages like TutorialDee are increasingly an active research area.''