Relational databases are awesome. SQL (the ansi standard) is pretty good too. But Rows suck. My data almost never exists as a row in the app. For me the siren c

Relational databases are awesome. SQL (the ansi standard) is pretty good too. But Rows suck. My data almost never exists as a row in the app. For me the siren call of NoSQL was storage systems that stored and returned my data the way it actually existed in my app. The vast majority of my CRUD apps don't need joins. They need to update an Entity that has a tree like structure. The biggest pain was deserializing that structure into a set of rows and then back again. It's a pain that ORM's tried to fix but caused additional problems. What I really want is a relational database with a sql like query language that isn't stuck in a world of rows.