If you haven't tried PowerShell I strongly recommend you do. It is really well designed and the way objects are piped between commands is brilliant and very powerful. Combined with property filters you can do SQL like queries. The ConvertTo-JSON lets you export the output of any command to JSON which is amazingly useful. As an example you can dump the entire Active Directory (Assuming you have permissions) by
Get-ADObject -Filter * -Properties * | ConvertTo-JSON > ADObjects.json
And you have access to ALL of the .NET library.