The questions we often hear are “Why create a new query language?” and “What’s wrong with SQL?”. This post contains answers to both. Before we begin, let’s overview some of the history of how the relational model came to be, and how SQL was created. The relational model was introduced by Edgar F. Codd in a seminal 1970 paper “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks” [4]. There, Codd