Begin abstracting more of the database-specific search backend out

Begin abstracting more of the database-specific search backend out

There's a lot in the base search implementations that is specific
to the database backed search. This starts moving some of that out
into a shared base class for those.

For starters, let's not grab a connection to the slave DB for
every single search for backends unless they need it.

Change-Id: Ib66696841eea901e04b21dd309784af889a45ab1