Bikeshed common database API

We should provide a common interface for databases to ease porting from one database backend to another.

Similar projects for other languages:

• Python:
  • DB-API: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/
• Go:
  • sql: http://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/
• Ruby:
  • DataObjects: https://github.com/datamapper/do
  • Sequel: http://sequel.rubyforge.org/
• Node.js:
  • http://www.sequelizejs.com/

Known bindings:

• Sqlite:
  • https://github.com/linuxfood/rustsqlite
• PostgreSQL (in progress):
  • https://github.com/erickt/rust-pg

Needed:

• MySQL
• Oracle

Open questions:

• Should we bother trying to support NoSQLs?
• Do we low-level like Python's DB-API? Or higher level, like Ruby's Sequel?