The hacker news title says (1962), but the article is dated "October 15, 1991" and it references "Database Systems: Achievements and Opportunities" in the October, 1991, issue of the Communications.

The date here looks like it’s 1991, not 1962.

Having matured as an engineer well into the age of cloud computing, I can’t speak from experience on whether the systems described were superior to relational databases. However the specific predictions made turned out wrong: contrary to the peak of OO hype in the 90s, object-oriented DBMSes mostly look like an irrelevant boondoggle in hindsight, and while use cases for non-relational systems have grown (e.g. Kafka, etcd, Redis), relational databases are as dominant as ever in core data processing workloads 30 years later.

Would be very interested to hear a modern specialists perspective on this. Frankly, I always considered a well designed and maintained relational database to be a thing of beauty. Incredible intuitive and simple to utilize even for a semi technically competant layman.

This seems overly critical. But maybe uve drank the cool aid?