DBCLI – Modern Suite of Database CLIs (opens in new tab)

Same command syntax as psql, so no need to learn a new tool. A single command line client that works with every database, so there's no need to have multiple binaries installed. It's a single static binary, so it can be copied and used from anywhere -- no need for endless pip dependencies.

Yes it's had syntax highlighting for about 2 months now. I haven't finished the 0.6.0 release, but if you install from source you can use it from there.

Thankfully there are exceptions. Not everyone is trying to be hip. When one needs to build seriously bullet proof, robust systems which must handle extreme amounts of data and do it very fast, Oracle database in RAC configuration is the way to go, and a CLI SQL client is the tool to get there.