Cool! Most DBA's I know tend to stay on the side of what is popular like Java. Do you use Lisp at work? If so, any pushback?
I stick with that is available in centos+EPEL, which includes sbcl, and use ODBC for most of my work.
The common tooling for open source databases is varied. A lot of what makes mariadb and postgresql happen is c, shell scripts and perl. A lot of 3rd party tools are still php.
pgloader is a common lisp tool, and very useful.