Akiban is comprised of a dynamic mix of developers, DBAs and people who have built careers on databases and database technology. We can all share a laugh when we share anectdotes about clashes between developers and DBAs, but it's a very real and common friction point in many organizations.
One of the benefits of Akiban Table-grouping is that it resolves the impedance mismatch between how developers and the applications they create use a database, and how the DBAs ensure correctness, performance and high-availability. In this brief video clip, Ori explains how developers can be confident that their objects will map to the relational structures in the database without causing undue stress.