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Note from Chris Webber prefacing Elrond's DB abstraction idea.

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Database Abstraction/Wrapper Layer
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**NOTE from Chris Webber:** I asked Elrond to explain why he put
ASCENDING and DESCENDING in db/util.py when we could just import from
pymongo. Read beow for why, but note that nobody is actually doing
this and there's no proof that we'll ever support more than
MongoDB... it would be a huge amount of work to do so.
If you really want to prove that possible, jump on IRC and talk to
us about making such a branch. In the meanwhile, it doesn't hurt to
have things as they are... if it ever makes it hard for us to
actually do things, we might revisit or remove this. But for more
information, read below.
This submodule is for most of the db specific stuff.
There are two main ideas here: