I mean I was never crazy, RDBMS are useful, but SQL languages feel awkward not just to me. Calling RDBMSs “useful” is quite the understatement. They are among

I mean I was never crazy, RDBMS are useful, but SQL languages feel awkward not just to me. Calling RDBMSs “useful” is quite the understatement. They are among the most commercially successful software products of all time, and the theory backing them has endured with us for over 50 years now. BTW the question I asked was about querying data without ever using a SQL language, like tapping directly into the data. Of course a DB system is not designed to be used like this, but to me, it should, or at least there should be better alternative to SQL. This approach has been tried over and over again with little success to show for it. Considering that a good number of working programmers would be hard pressed to recall what ACID even stands for, much less with any rigor, you have to ask yourself if you really want to entrust valuable data to them. Furthermore, mucking around with low level storage and access patterns adds tremendous amount of work to development, it is very unpleasant.