Agreed. You said: "What we need is a more powerful SQL, one that doesn't require boilerplate and can do things like recursion (making every database a graph da

Agreed. You said: "What we need is a more powerful SQL, one that doesn't require boilerplate and can do things like recursion (making every database a graph database)." What about SQL's common table expressions (CTEs)? Not powerful enough? For those interested in SQL's recursive capabilities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_and_recursive_queries_in_SQL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_and_recursive_quer...