Don't know about the Rails world so much. But Django's "loose coupling" allows you to use a different ORM if you see fit as well. Though that's to be dosed wi

Don't know about the Rails world so much. But Django's "loose coupling" allows you to use a different ORM if you see fit as well. Though that's to be dosed with salt to taste... you lose some fun automagic stuff like manage.py <load/dump>data, contrib.admin, sessions A quick stackexchange search yielded a link here http://lethain.com/entry/2008/jul/23/replacing-django-s-orm-with-sqlalchemy/ http://lethain.com/entry/2008/jul/23/replacing-django-s-orm-...