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The data you get out of the database will be untyped.

When the language in the database is typed (SQL) and the language outside is typed too (c#, typescript, etc), it would be nice to keep that type information.

An ORM doesn't count since it is just a bad attemot to work around the inherent problems with SQL as an interface.




> The data you get out of the database will be untyped.

Uh, no. Nearly all database access protocols maintain type information for the resultsets returned to the client. That's definitely the case for postgres (cf. RowDescription in https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/protocol-messag... , accessible to the provided client library via PQftype,cf. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/libpq-exec.html... )

There's plenty cases to be made against RDBMs. No need to invent more.




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