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My late friend Morven Gentleman, not long after he stepped down from being chair of Computer Science at Waterloo, said that it seemed computer scientists had to create a new computer language for every new problem they encountered. If we could use least squares to measure this approximation, we'd likely be suspicio...

Akshay, Your question has way too many answers. SQL has a long history and early versions came long before R arrived on the scene. There is a huge embedded base of hardware and software dedicated to managing databases. It has some features that most R programs do not even dream of doing. Besides easily handling massive amounts of data or sometimes tweaking queries to possibly run more