> How does it save time when I have to learn the ORM language, which probably has a lot less support and users? The ORM is just an API to your database in your

> How does it save time when I have to learn the ORM language, which probably has a lot less support and users? The ORM is just an API to your database in your programming language. If you an handle any other API, you can handle an ORM. It's has obvious benefits like automatically handling mapping database columns to objects, doing simple querying without lots of strings, etc.