I don't need a full O/RM to provide query composition, type checking and protection against sql injection. SQLAlchemy core provides all of these (you can use th

I don't need a full O/RM to provide query composition, type checking and protection against sql injection. SQLAlchemy core provides all of these (you can use the ORM if you really want, and I have done so, but when I am pulling 16K records in the whole object mapping layer becomes expensive when a simple tuple works fine).