Proper relational database?

Anyone familiar with the issue would have to say that the tech world would be a significantly better place if IBM had
developeda real relational database with an elegant query language rather than the awful camel of a thing that is SQL. 

If I had a few $million to spend in a philanthropical manner, I would hire some of the best PG devs to develop a proper
relationaldatabase server. Probably a query language that expressed the relational algebra in a scheme-like syntax, and
thestorage model would be properly relational (eg no duplicate rows). 

It's an enormous tragedy that all the development effort that has gone into NoSQL database has pretty much all gotten
itwrong: by all means throw out SQL, but not the relational model with it. They're all just rehashing the debate over
hierarchicalstorage from the 70s. Comp Sci courses should feature a history class. 

It's a bit odd to me that someone isn't working on such a thing.

Just curious what folks here have to say…