Use a database with Clojure

Question

What methods to use a database from Clojure are there?

I know from Clojure you can do anything you can with Java, but that means that I may end up using something overly

Answer 1

If you need persistent connections and/or connections to multiple databases and do not want to reestablish connections every so often I would recommend using DB connection pools. Something like BoneCP or Tomcat CP.

You can supply DataSources from those packages to (clojure.contrib.sql/with-connection ...).