[shrumm]

Or maybe you can do ML with SQL.... Postgres can do basic linear regression, I did this a couple of times for an analysis and found it pretty handy.

[zkomp]

What? not having to choose either or, actually using good tools for the job, solving the problem instead of mindlessly following the hype? /s

[tfehring]

Not to mention that recent versions of MS SQL can run (AFAIK) arbitrary R and Python code server-side.