Every sufficiently large or agile enterprise needs to follow the DBMS2 approach. The following is from an article on eBay’s version:

“eBay has built a software-based Integration Tier. This contains both a data access layer (DAL) and a services framework. The Integration Tier acts as an abstraction layer for software engineers to work with many disparate back-end data sources through a consistent set of abstractions.”

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