[TYPO3-mvc] Oracle DB Backend

[Zachary Davis]

Xavier,

I'm definitely on board and interested in working on this. For now, I'm 
looking for a reasonable short-term solution that can be accomplished 
without rewriting large parts of ExtBase and/or DBAL. Our client is 
pretty committed to TYPO3 at this point, however, so once the short-term 
need is addressed, I'm anticipate that I'll be able tohelp with a more 
scalable, long-term solution.

I'm curious to see what the ExtBase folks say here. It seems to me that 
the shortest path to making ExtBase work with Oracle (and other DB 
backends) might be to rewrite the TYPO3 DB backend (or provide a new DB 
backend) that uses the various DB methods in TYPO3 correctly. Can any of 
the ExtBase devs comment on whether you think this is a viable 
short-term approach?

Or, alternately, I suppose that until there's a full query builder 
object in TYPO3 that lives outside of ExtBase, it might make sense to 
just write an extBase DB backend that interacts with Oracle directly, 
thereby avoiding DBAL altogether.

Zach