The problem of SQL is that is is ubiquitous. The advice to learn SQL is because it's everywhere. Now it has inertia, and a better way of doing things has an up

The problem of SQL is that is is ubiquitous. The advice to learn SQL is because it's everywhere. Now it has inertia, and a better way of doing things has an uphill battle. In 1980-s somebody compared working with SQL to drinking data through a straw, comparing to swimming in data with APL. We had a recent article comparing modern SSD delays and RAM sizes to those which defined architectures of SQL systems of recent decades - we can perhaps reengineer our databases better for modern opportunities. But all these approaches have to deal with SQL as an entrenched technology. Probably a task for a company of a Google class.