Maypole is designed to have some CRUD (CReate, Update, Delete) database web app very quick. And it is good at that. If your app fits that model well than you have saved lot's of time if not you will have to spend a lot of time to add the missing functionality. I thought that CRUD could quite flexible if you were allowed to use database views but first views were not supported by the Maypole libraries (I eventually got it working with
some patches with Postgresql), second it still is not that flexible as I thought.
And the last point the paging is not done right - at last in search, I remember, all the data is fetched first from the database and only then the items for the current page are filtered. So if you have in your database hundreds of thousends of records you'll have all of them in the memory in one huge array only to filter then a few of them.