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> Please somebody combine APL with SQL and you win the programming language wars.

kdb+ and q fit this description. Docs here: https://code.kx.com/q/basics/qsql/

Here's an example.

In SQL:

    SELECT stock, SUM(amount) AS total FROM trade GROUP BY stock
In q:

    q)select total:sum amt by stock from trade


Was gonna say the same plus kdb+ is a columnar store so you can get vectorizarion in your sql execution as well.




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