I have no interest in the 'O' or 'M' in an ORM, but I am very interested in a language better than SQL for interacting with SQL-based pseudo-relational datastor

I have no interest in the 'O' or 'M' in an ORM, but I am very interested in a language better than SQL for interacting with SQL-based pseudo-relational datastores. I've found SQLAlchemy to be a pretty good tool in this respect.