I don't know if it's necessary for a better language to do both OLAP and OLTP; it seems that they are used by different classes of users with relatively low ove

I don't know if it's necessary for a better language to do both OLAP and OLTP; it seems that they are used by different classes of users with relatively low overlap in language features. But I definitely agree that such a test as (1) would be a critical prerequisite to an improvement over SQL.