I feel that Django's ORM is one the main reasons for its success. Yes, it's limited and simplistic compared to something like Hibernate -- but that's actually a

I feel that Django's ORM is one the main reasons for its success. Yes, it's limited and simplistic compared to something like Hibernate -- but that's actually a blessing in this context. People love Django because it makes it so simple to build an application quickly. Without the built-in ORM, things like admin and generic views would be harder to implement and certainly wouldn't work anywhere nearly as nicely out of the box.