[FpUser]

>"- A system that starts with our database schema

- a language in the front-end that abstracts away server connection and db access"

Optimal data layout for storage and for processing / presentation can be quite different. Automatically mapping one to another I think can not be efficiently implemented in automatic fashion. I've tried different frameworks that claim to achieve it but at some point you always hit the wall. As a result I've long abandoned all those attempts and do manual transformation in code that are optimal for my particular situations