[aaronsteers]

Helpful feedback, thank you! And your instincts are spot on. As of now, we have API based search, with filter predicates and field selection in JSON. While we haven't published anything on the backend implementation, I can say it does use a cloud-native storage medium where the filters are indeed pushed down as SQL. We want to be careful about if/when we offer direct SQL access, specifically because SQL dialects can differ drastically and we wouldn't want to break consumers if/when we change which dialect(s) are supported.

That said, please stay tuned - and thank you again for this valuable feedback.