[Catalyst] RE: Choosing the right ORM

[Sam Vilain]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 18:25 +0100, Dami Laurent (PJ) wrote:
> > Ideally, ORMs should be interchangeable without requiring any app code 
> > changes, and without sacrificing any features.  What we need is a sort 
> > of meta-ORM layer with ORM-specific "driver" layers.  Gack, it never 
> > ends... ;)
> I totally disagree. The design space for ORMs is vast, as can be seen
>  from the number of different proposals on CPAN. There is definitely
>  more than one way to do it, and the way you choose has a strong
> impact on the API; so there is no hope to find a meta-API that would
>  cover all possible needs.

Agreed.  In any case, you can always pick one of these two for your
abstract model:

  1. your Perl classes, if using an orthogonal storage tool

  2. your relational database

The design patterns and abstractions needed for these are quite
different...

Sam.