> Awkward it may be, but SQL is a lot more succint and readable than multiple lines of API calls or crazy, math-like relational algebra languages. I'd have to

> Awkward it may be, but SQL is a lot more succint and readable than multiple lines of API calls or crazy, math-like relational algebra languages. I'd have to totally agree with this. SQL also achieves higher level of abstraction than any of the above. Perhaps, as the author said, there is a chance that SQL (or subset of it) will be used as the query language for No SQL-type back-ends.