Thank you for your comment. The motivation for JSONiq and RumbleDB is discussed in this recent paper, the core argument is data independence: https://arxiv.or

Thank you for your comment. The motivation for JSONiq and RumbleDB is discussed in this recent paper, the core argument is data independence: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11582v3 https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11582v3 JSONiq is a functional language and thus makes it easy to scale to collections that have billions of objects. A notable difference with JavaScript is that JSONiq has the FLWOR expression, which is similar to, but more generic than, a SQL statement.