Kinda reminds me of what they do in some areas of the finance world with Kx System's Kdb+. That entire install is tiny tiny and you get a high performance array language for querying your SSD database with either the main language "k" or a syntactical sugar dialect sitting on top called "q" that is more like SQL.

I think of that as optimizing the entire stack for what the customer wants of rapid/high-speed analytics.