Answer (1 of 5): I'm in the same boat as Chris K Wensel in that I am not an unbiased party. :) TL;DR The main difference I see is the level of abstraction in the data model and how that level of abstraction impacts the amount of boilerplate involved when writing user-defined functions. If you ar...
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