Lo, and the apostles asked, "Do we not require an embeddable database interface?" And out of the void one was created.
And the apostles asked, "Why do we lacketh a proper Lispified object-relational manager, from whence we shall reduceth boilerplate SQL in quantity?"
And they went off and engaged in metaprogramming over strings as the ancients had so done in the land of Java, and a great darkness fell over the land.