Comment by scottbcovert

Salesforce architect here (from partner firm, not the mothership directly)--Salesforce's query language, SOQL, is definitely a different beast as you say. I'd like to learn more about the issues you're having with the integration, specifically the permissions enforcement. I may be misunderstanding what you meant in the blog post, but if you're passing a SOQL query through the REST API then the results will be scoped by default to the permissions of the user that went through the OAuth flow. My email is in my profile if you're open to connecting.