> My prediction is that SQL will fail too...And the reason is the same: tabular data does not map well to our data structures. The whole point of SQL is that r

> My prediction is that SQL will fail too...And the reason is the same: tabular data does not map well to our data structures. The whole point of SQL is that relations and relational data are not data structures. They are higher level concepts and data structures are implementation details. The reason it has survived 4+ decades is because it isn't intrinsically tied to those implementation details and instead can be reimplemented over and over and over. > There are infinite attempts to dethrone it. Viewed another way, there are infinite attempts to reinvent it, all of which keep failing, because they aren't as good.