Which, imho, is why we need to stop making excuses for SQL. It's better than the terrible "NoSQL" alternatives for a lot of reasons, but it's still far outstay

Which, imho, is why we need to stop making excuses for SQL. It's better than the terrible "NoSQL" alternatives for a lot of reasons, but it's still far outstayed its welcome. We're past due for something new. Something that natively works with the typed-graph thinking of the client code instead of forcing everything into the flat resultset, but otherwise keeps the ACID guarantees and the relational model.