I'll take anything over the pre-7 approach of either extending nodes, trying to wrap your head around programmatically using CCK or doing plain SQL... but an OR

I'll take anything over the pre-7 approach of either extending nodes, trying to wrap your head around programmatically using CCK or doing plain SQL... but an ORM on steroids? The code samples on http://www.istos.it/blog/drupal-entities/drupal-entities-part-3-programming-hello-drupal-entity http://www.istos.it/blog/drupal-entities/drupal-entities-par... aren't exactly what you'd call elegant, bundles are a poor man's inheritance, you need a contrib module (Relation) to do something as basic as relations, and EntityFieldQuery doesn't even come close to the expressiveness of e.g. SQLAlchemy. It's an enormous step forward, but don't get cocky :-)