The Data Hive

I've had some ideas bouncing around in the back of my head for a few days now.  One is that when using an application, specifically a large-scale web application, having a traditional RDBMS backend is a point of limitation in terms of scale.  RDBMS systems are really good for being able to aggregate data, and create reporting interfaces, but it isn't so great from being able to use structured object data on the front end.  Now I'm talking about going beyond ORM mappers, and even beyond an Object Database here.  What I see coming in the future is a Data Hive. More...