Well, there is the option of writing all your CRUD methods as stored procedures which are the things that actually create/update records (while still allowing c

Well, there is the option of writing all your CRUD methods as stored procedures which are the things that actually create/update records (while still allowing complex reporting queries), but that means writing all that logic in the provided SQL language. That was one of the most interesting things to me about the Drizzle MySQL fork project. One of the goals was to make the SQL language that was used a plugin, so you could use just about whatever you want, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, Haskell, whatever, as the SQL server level. Being able to share client and server level code opens up some interesting possibilities. Alas, I think it ended up being abandoned.