Verbosity ?

In the accidental vs essential complexity dimension, it is the most dense language in essential complexity I know (for the value it provides).

This simple command `UPDATE users SET preference = 'blue' WHERE id = 123` virtually contains:

* concurrency control

* statistics, which will help:

* execution plans evaluation, which will reduce IO cost with the help of:

* (several categories of) indexes

* type checking

* data invariants checking

* point in time recovery

* enables dataset-wide backup strategies

* ISO standard way of structuring data

* an interface that empowers business people

And that's just a few items off the top of my mind.

Even APL is less dense. There are no execution plans in APL.