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Have you considered using Amazon SimpleDB? Its a very simple and fast way to persist data. Avoids the scaling and implementation headaches associated with a typical database.

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I did not really have headaches with databases yet. One issue might be not having database drivers, though (LISP programming???). Another might be use cases that don't match databases well. For example I could imagine search engines would be better off saving their data in a different way (specialized index files). Or twitter-like things?

"One issue might be not having database drivers, though (LISP programming???)."

Huh?

I know there are probably drivers, I just have not figured it all out yet (MzScheme). What about orm mappers, for example?

Sorry, that really wasn't meant as a criticism of LISP.

Well, I'm not too familiar with MzScheme, but http://planet.plt-scheme.org/ would probably be a good place to look.

Common Lisp certainly does have good database support: CLSQL probably supports whatever combination of OS, Lisp implementation, and RDBMS you need.

ORM tools and other object persistence solutions are there too. http://common-lisp.net/ is a good source.

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