Any discussion on ORMs needs to consider what sort of app and queries you are writing. ORMs are fantastic for the very common case: * Fetch 20 rows and displa

Any discussion on ORMs needs to consider what sort of app and queries you are writing. ORMs are fantastic for the very common case: * Fetch 20 rows and display them as a table, * Fetch 1 row by primary key and display it as a form, * Write updated fields from the form back into the 1 row in the database. Anything more complicated, and direct SQL starts being more attractive. But for the common case that ORMs are designed for, they are a major productivity boost.