But one doesn’t write arbitrary queries. It is very easy to end up frequently wanting to write the kinds of analytic queries described in the GP rather than the

But one doesn’t write arbitrary queries. It is very easy to end up frequently wanting to write the kinds of analytic queries described in the GP rather than the kinds of things which SQL expressed better (which you fail to describe). People pay a lot of money for kdb so clearly they see some value in it despite the lack of sql.