I agree. I took a course in databases and SQL and was blown away by its power. With CTE’s and PLSQL you can do a lot of stuff inside the database.

I played with SQLite and it’s json columns. Once you get the hang of the syntax for walking a json structure you can do all sorts of neat things. Doing the same thing in Python would be tedious.

And I also believe it ended up being way faster than what I did in python.