1. In a computing environment, a method performed at least in part on at least one processor for enriching a query response, comprising: accessing a database query directed to a database, the database query including one or more commands including an enrichment command, each of the one or more commands having one or more parameters, the enrichment command directing a database engine to enrich a database response to the database query with enrichment data of a specified type of enrichment data, the enrichment data type related to database data contained in the database; querying the database in accordance with the one or more commands of the database query to obtain a query response containing a portion of the database data; obtaining enrichment data of the enrichment data type in accordance with the enrichment command; forming an enriched query response from the query response by merging the portion of database data with the enrichment data; and returning the enriched database response in response to the database query.