I think relational databases as a technology are absolutely the bees knees. It still boggles my mind that devs are choosing NoSQL databases for their products r

I think relational databases as a technology are absolutely the bees knees. It still boggles my mind that devs are choosing NoSQL databases for their products right out of the gate and throwing away 50 years of relational alegbra database technology. SQL as a technology did an admirable job of allowing practitioners to express relational queries, but let's be real - the syntax of SQL, especially for advanced queries, was always pretty awful. I think that syntax, more than the underlying DB technologies, was the number one factor driving people towards NoSQL unnecessarily. What would be amazing is if the RDBMS community could create an industry standard querying language that supported relational algebra but actually had a pleasant development experience.