Easy and efficient database usage

[w0rp via Digitalmars-d]

I keep finding myself thinking about what an API in D for easy 
and efficient database usage would look like. I started thinking 
about how ORM is done in libraries in other languages, and 
started to become obsessed with the notion that perhaps there 
should be a library for D which is roughly as convenient to use 
as an ORM, but tends towards greater efficiency, in particular 
for encouraging more efficient queries through the API, and for 
cutting down on the number of allocations done.

Has anyone had any thoughts on this so far? I work with Django in 
my day-to-day work, but I have often thought that it would be 
nice to have something for easy database access for D web server 
backends. So you can write low to medium scale web applications 
in some dynamic language, and high performance backends in D for 
large scale web projects. Django provides a variety of nice 
features for working with databases, and I wonder how they would 
be represented in D.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this topic?