Comment by iblaine

Academically, EdgeDB is very interesting, but practically, it seems to be solving a problem that does not exist. SQL is great for simple set operations and will lose its efficiency as you move towards more advanced features. The industry has accepted SQLs limitations and created new ways to interface with data, such as UDFs, pig, and pyspark. Those widely accepted alternatives can save you from doing something in SQL that you really shouldn't be doing in the first place.