> Do you really care that much about the language? Shouldn't you care more about your data? If you are not OK with SQL there are abstractions available. I do c

> Do you really care that much about the language? Shouldn't you care more about your data? If you are not OK with SQL there are abstractions available. I do care about SQL being a text-based protocol with in-band commands, bringing lots of functionality that I never need (I do not use the fancy query features for exploratory analysis, I have applications with very specific data access patterns). For my needs, I do not need a "query language" at all, just index lookups. And I would much rather not have to worry about escaping my data, because I have to squeeze everything into a simple text pipe.