Some background: For the past 30 months I’ve been working with code that has to interface with Postgres and to some extent, SQLite. Most of that has been with SQLAlchemy (which I quite like) and Hibernate (which I don’t). I’ve worked with existing code and data models, as well as designing my own. Most of the data is event-based storage (“timelines”) with a heavy emphasis on creating reports.

Much has been written about the Object/Relational Impedance Mismatch. It’s hard to appreciate it until you live it. Neward, in his well known essay, lays out many cogent reasons why ORMs turn into quagmires. In my experience, I’ve had to deal directly with a fair number of them: entity identity issues, dual-schema problem, data retrieval mechanism concern, and the partial-object problem. I want to talk briefly about my experiences with these issues and add one of my own.

Ça m'a l'air pas mal comme appli. C'est par le créateur de Adminer qui est un MySQL simplifié qui tient dans un fichier.