DataMgr is a database abstraction tool to simplify common
interactions with the database. This encompasses three major types of
functionality:
- CRUD: Database reads/writes including those of the type performed by cfinsert/cfupdate
- ActiveSchema:
The ability for your code to define your database structure. DataMgr
can introspect the database structure or it can define it.
- Prototyping: The ability to use simulated data for prototyping (much like QuerySim, but more powerful and less work).
Additionally, DataMgr provides some advanced functionality that
allows you to define special behaviors and relation fields that can
dramatically assist development. Taken together, these features can
effectively create interactions with the database that fit the way we
develop web applications.
DataMgr could be viewed as a competitor
to an ORM approach - though it doesn't require the same types of
interactions. While ORM solutions effectively change the perspective of
development from database to object, DataMgr maintains the database
perspective, but makes common database interaction code more concise
and powerful.
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