Easy and efficient database usage

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 23 October 2015 at 12:42:08 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> 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?

https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dotter

Perhaps not exactly what you need, but this looked quite nice to 
me.  Sönke doesn't seem to be doing much else, so I can't think 
why it's not finished yet ;) (and since this is the internet: I 
mean the opposite).