Here is a long blogpost "against SQL" which lists many deficiencies of it: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/ https://www.scattered-thought

Here is a long blogpost "against SQL" which lists many deficiencies of it: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/ https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/ In short, it has a longer spec than famously-complex C++ while making a much less expressive language out of it.