I was sure this post would be about SPARQL; the web as a distributed DB is genius, but a new query language with tuples and specialized servers weren’t the answer I’d imagined.
I immediately thought of Salesforce and their almost-but-not-quite SQL query language that they have.
Or Microsoft's Graph API, which is kind of SQL-y, kind of LDAPy, but not systematized enough that you can be confident anything you try will work without reading the doc on the particular resource you're trying to get.
Or Microsoft's Graph API, which is kind of SQL-y, kind of LDAPy, but not systematized enough that you can be confident anything you try will work without reading the doc on the particular resource you're trying to get.