The SQL database language was originally intended for application programmers. However, after more than 20 years of language extensions, SQL can only be generated by software components and is no longer suitable for an increasing user base like knowledge workers or data scientists, who want to work with data in an interactive fashion. The original idea of declarative query languages, telling the system what information to retrieve and not how to retrieve it, is still relevant. However, procedural elements are extremely worthwhile and have to be part of a next generation database programming language without compromising performance and scalability. To tackle this challenge, we are going to present our overall approach consisting of a highly-scalable NUMA-aware storage engine ERIS and a novel appropriate procedural programming approach on top of ERIS in this paper.