You're being way too nice. Java stream is nowhere near as easy to use as LINQ. I'd say that LINQ is easily one of the top 10 coding features that Microsoft has ever created.
I think LINQ is inspired by SQL. You can do whatever you can with SQL, it's just that the data source might differ IEnumerable with some in memory data, IQueryable with some DB. Or you can use async enumerable and your data source can be whatever web API or protocol.