A lot of teams waste time fighting language wars. Everyone wants a unified user interface, but everyone also wants it in their language, their way. Swimlanes turn into silos, but what is worse than data silos? As Erik Bernhardsson put it, "data silos that invent their own query language."

Instead of juggling query languages, SQL dialects, and a network of connections between user interfaces and engines, composable data systems offer standards as an olive branch in the language wars.