= Alternative Ideas for Database Independence

== Object-Relational Mapper

An ORM could be used to provide a unified object interface to different relational database management systems that Trac supports:
 * [http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ SQLAlchemy], which is also quite advanced, is discussed further on the SqlAlchemy page. The following plugins exist that implement querying the Trac database using this library: 
  * [th:SqlAlchemyQueryMacro]
  * [th:TracSqlAlchemyBridgeIntegration]
 * [http://adodb.sourceforge.net ADODB], the fast database abstraction layer for use with Microsoft ADO with a [pypi:adodbapi version available for Python].
 * [http://sqlobject.org SQLObject] is a Python based library to accomplish the goal of database independence.
 * [http://modeling.sourceforge.net/ Modeling] is another, more advanced OR-Mapper.

== Store Tickets and Wiki pages directly in the Subversion repository

A compelling idea with many advantages. A page advocating this plan is TighterSubversionIntegration. There has also been a discussion on the Trac mailing list, of which the arguments are summarized on the page [wiki:WhySQLite WhySQLite].