[TYPO3-mvc] Oracle DB Backend

[Zachary Davis]

I have a client that's using DBAL with an Oracle database backend. My 
understanding is that ExtBase is not currently working with Oracle 
(correct, right?) However, we intend to use ExtBase for this project, 
and we're ready to dig in and do what needs to be done to make ExtBase 
work with Oracle. I'd like to do this in such a way that the work can be 
reused by others and potentially brought into the ExtBase (and/or DBAL).

 From what I've seen on the newsgroups, there is some disagreement about 
how to approach this. If I understand the discussion correctly, one 
approach would be to try to make DBAL support the various query 
mechanisms that ExtBase uses (eg, sub-selects). Another approach would 
be to write a DB backend in ExtBase that is geared at Oracle.

What I want to avoid doing is going in a direction with this that isn't 
the direction that the various folks involved involved with ExtBase and 
DBAL want to take, thereby reducing the likelihood that the work we do 
can be used by others.

My question, then, is whether someone here can point me in the general 
direction that we should take on this project. Is writing a new storage 
backend in ExtBase the path that will most likely lead to our work 
getting committed? Or will we be better off working on DBAL and it's 
query parsing mechanisms? Or is there a another, better approach here 
that I'm not seeing? If someone from the ExtBase team could give me some 
general direction on where would be the best place to implement this, 
I'm pretty confident we can take it from there.

best,
Zach