I'd switch to a full DB server for a production Web App. If you're using an ORM it should be pretty trivial (the one time I've done it, Perl's DBIx::Class made

I'd switch to a full DB server for a production Web App. If you're using an ORM it should be pretty trivial (the one time I've done it, Perl's DBIx::Class made it as easy as changing the connection info hash). I'm not sure how many people hand code their SQL at hackathons but I am not one of them ;).