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This may give some sense of what it can do:

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/

From what I can tell, the main difference between Wolfram and Matlab/Julia (other than syntax) is a database of various facts. Is that a fair assessment?

Is there a way to access the database without the language?

It's based on rewriting symbolic terms (similar to Lisp's s-expressions) using rules.

It then originally has a large library of facts and rules for a large amount of mathematical domains. This has been expanded over time into lots of knowledge about the world (physics, biology, astronomy, ...).

Programming is often done with multimedia-rich notebooks.

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/entity/Planet.htm...

So it's some kind of knowledge-based system for mathematical related domains,

Thanks.

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