@dan and @ben, I was listening to your podcast and heard you mention that someone was asking about using the CMS with a Filter stack.
This was asked over in Google+ and I put together a proof of concept using Stacks4Stacks Filter stack and Total CMC
You can check it out over at http://cmsSandbox.Abundance.Fm
Oh, and Both Total CMS and Easy CMS are free from the use of databases.