From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-11-06T00:41:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Will ActiveRecord support Berkeley DB?

> if AR abstracted a bit more away from SQL, but that would add a lot 
> more complexity to an already fairly complex beast. As it is, it is a 
> great fit for *most* things, and for everything else, 
> wellll....there's MasterCard. (sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Active Record's niche is the close relationship with SQL. I see that as 
a definite strength over similar frameworks that attempts to abstract 
the querying to their own object-like interfaces.
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