Wow, actually had an article starred on this in the trusty Reader. http://jmoiron.net/blog/about-sqlalchemy-and-djangos-orm/ http://jmoiron.net/blog/about-sqla

Wow, actually had an article starred on this in the trusty Reader. http://jmoiron.net/blog/about-sqlalchemy-and-djangos-orm/ http://jmoiron.net/blog/about-sqlalchemy-and-djangos-orm/ Money quote for me: "SQLAlchemy is a toolkit for python programmers who want or need to use a database to write programs that do so. Django's ORM is a tool for python programmers to quickly model business-level data relationships and use a database for persistent storage. This is really an important distinction; the Django ORM interface is focused on the application's data model, whereas SQLAlchemy's interface is focused on the underlying data store."