I've always felt a more modular SQL database system is needed. SQL dbs are too black box. You can't interact with the query planner. NoSQL essentially is doing

I've always felt a more modular SQL database system is needed. SQL dbs are too black box. You can't interact with the query planner. NoSQL essentially is doing just this. SQL dbs have great underlying layers such as storage, caching, transactions, indexing, concurrency, gis support, backups, etc. If anything, devs probably just need to be more familiar with DB internals and have tools setup to analyze queries easier.