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> Go try writing non-trivial queries in any other database query language

Which query languages (other than ORMs) are the top contenders when staying within the rational model to compare with?

While there are notable examples of non-relational databases that use SQL as their native query language, I was recently looking for a relational database that natively uses a language other than SQL and came up short. I imagine there is something out there, but SQL dominates the landscape.

I am familiar with a few alternative languages, some of which compile to SQL. But it is pretty bleak out there, which is interesting given how many general purpose programming languages we have. I expect because ORMs have become the language people use to query databases, all of the attention have gone into them, rather than improving native query languages.