Central Abstractions
Applications built with Circumflex ORM usually operate on following abstractions:
Record — wraps a row in a database Table or View, encapsulates the database access and adds domain logic on that data;Relation — encapsulates database object (Table or View) for corresponding Record and adds methods for querying, manipulating and validating its data;Field — corresponds to atomic data unit inside Record or database column in Table;Association — incapsulates Field which links one type of Record with another, this relationship is expressed by foreign keys in the database;Query — communicates with database either for data retrieval or data manipulation;SchemaObject — represents an abstract database object (such as trigger, index, constraint or stored procedure); tables and views are database objects, too.