[tluyben2]

I was wondering about this a few days ago when I was, again, stuffing a square peg in a round hole by doing work you would hope a db or orm should be able to handle.

Is there any research going on to solve this in a non OO environment? I worked with (expensive) OO databaes in the past and that was crap, nosql is not helping much either, although the idea (I say the idea as I hate the implementation) to have the language married with the datastore like Mongo is something. I have seen non OO environments where the company just extended sql to be a full generic programming language which also works but it all feels... Not quite there. Q/k on kdb+ I find pleasant as I find Mnesia with Erlang. That feels far more natural than the other choices, but I feel it can be better with research and more FP oriented.