In theory, yes. In practice, the best language is one that maps developer thought process into working code in the most natural ways. I don't know the community

In theory, yes. In practice, the best language is one that maps developer thought process into working code in the most natural ways. I don't know the community that ReQL is targeting, but for the current crop of data scientists, SQL is a more natural language in my opinion. (There is a reason why Hive is so popular among big companies, where you'd expect to find big data sets.