As a former Splunk employee, I would be really sad to see Splunk's search language enshrined as a standard. It wasn't designed, it grew organically from a set o

As a former Splunk employee, I would be really sad to see Splunk's search language enshrined as a standard. It wasn't designed, it grew organically from a set of shell scripts. It has no grammar, and using it effectively is largely knowing a grab bag of special commands that someone hacked on to fix a specific weakness of the language. Interestingly, you don't need a special language. The relational calculus is isomorphic to the regularity calculus, which, in practical terms, means that SQL is a perfectly good language for Splunk's use case.