in reply to Re^6: Reflections on the design of a pure-Moose web app...
in thread Reflections on the design of a pure-Moose web app...
Well, yes, if you need a relational DB, then you need something like DBIx::Class or Fey. But even this does not prevent you from also being able to use KiokuDB. I am currently working on a project where my objects are stored in KiokuDB using the KiokuDB::Backend::DBI backend and I am using Fey to access my non-object, relational data.
The reason for this is that to model my objects in the RDBMS would result in an explosion of tables and a duplicated metadata which wouldn't really be useful to me because that data is only meaningful when it is in object form, not when it is sliced and diced into a bunch of relational tables.
The rest of the app has relational data that makes little or no sense as objects. Just as with the above, putting this relational data into objects would result in an explosion of classes and duplicated metadata none of which would be useful for me, and would only make manipulating this data tedious and difficult.
The right tool for the right job, that is all I am saying really. Too often people just assume "okay, I need a RDBMS" when they want to save data and don't really consider other forms of persistence. This is becoming an increasingly precarious assumption the more people use ORMs and model their business objects in pure OO rather then SQL.