Needed: A Relational Database for ‘Normal’ People

“David Coursey”:http://blog.ziffdavis.com/coursey/ has a column on eWeek entitled Needed: A Relational Database for ‘Normal’ People. Glad to see I’m not the only one struggling with n:m relationships
I think he’s right. Software should abstract the details that we, the users, don’t care about. As described in “this comment”:http://www.eweek.com/talkback_details/0,2278,s=26004&a=130433,00.asp?m=1413, we know the result we want, and whether the database duplicates the data between tables and keeps it in sync, or stores it in separate tables with a linking table for the relationship - it doesn’t matter! Sure, it will for high end applications, but then you employ a database architect and make it all nice and speedy
We need the technology to come after RDBMs. What’s happened to evolution - or revolution? It seems to have gone towards object databases so far, but not in the main stream. I’m thinking of something that replaces SQL as well - yes, really revolutionary, not limited by any existing technology.