Scala has its own issues, but it's worth a try. It's easy to learn coming from Python, even more so if you can start with Scala 3 right away. You cannot really

Scala has its own issues, but it's worth a try. It's easy to learn coming from Python, even more so if you can start with Scala 3 right away. You cannot really get more high-level than that. There are good libraries to work with databases, Quill comes to mind if you want something user-friendly. And you can always fall back to the many Java libraries in the big data ecosystem (even though you should probably avoid it if you can).