Data persistence

[kms70847]

We need a DB and an interface for talking to it. Without this, several other issues can't be resolved.

[kms70847]

Briefly discussed this issue in chat. Fizzy, Poke, and Jon suggest Postgres. ( http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/31915475#31915475 http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/31915478#31915478 http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/31915544#31915544 )

[kms70847]

Jon also suggests using an ORM such as SQLAlchemy so it's easy to switch between backends. ( http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/31915544#31915544 ).

[kms70847]

All of this sounds good to me. sqlite3/postgres as appropriate, using SQLA for a consistent interface.

[davidism]

I was imagining I'd just use sopython, although I'd be ok with standing up another Flask app as a separate api too.