Over decades, almost no changes were made to the definition of relational databases. Recently, they are challenged by NoSQL databases that were developed to solve very specific problems.

However, it turns out that adding a tiny layer over relational databases, without breaking any backwards compatibility, triples their abilities and enables a new generation of applications.

This layer is being developed in Israel as an open source project (over PostgreSQL in the first stage). Amongst the abilities added thanks to this layer:

• Temporality that makes the tabular databases "cubic", three-dimensional, with the time dimension adding abilities that one could only dream about before.
• Making "Schema" unnecessary, so that any beginner SQL user could perform actions that only a DBA could perform in the past.
• The code implementing the program can become part of the data.
• Natural support for modern data types (such as tagging).

The lecture will include mostly a live demonstration (that's what we all like, no?)