You're assuming quite a lot about the use case. I personally don't have a problem that's solved by this particular utility, but it's not uncommon for our analyt

You're assuming quite a lot about the use case. I personally don't have a problem that's solved by this particular utility, but it's not uncommon for our analytics team to use pandas to join CSV files on their way into our data warehouse (or to otherwise reshape small datasets). I could definitely see the utility in plain text relational tools.