Hand-written SQL is not intrinsically faster than ORM generated SQL. The instances where ORM's have worse performance is typically due to application errors lik

Hand-written SQL is not intrinsically faster than ORM generated SQL. The instances where ORM's have worse performance is typically due to application errors like n+1 queries or forgetting to batch updates. If you actually know what you are doing you can typically do the same optimization on the ORM level.