Great article, but I think the author puts too much emphasis on SQL instead on the fact that the data being stored in a relational way. Personally I actually w

Great article, but I think the author puts too much emphasis on SQL instead on the fact that the data being stored in a relational way. Personally I actually would like an alternative language that would be capable to be integrated with the language in such way that it could also fall with type checking. So for example if I rename a column in a database, the type checker would highlight all places in my code that were broken by this change. JOOQ[1] seems to do something like that, but it's only for Java. Also, looks like QUEL[2] would be a bit easier to be integrated with a language, too bad it died. [1] http://www.jooq.org/ http://www.jooq.org/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages