> If you don't pick an ORM to help manage this translation layer, then you'll end up re-implementing your own. Only in the loose sense that you have to put the

> If you don't pick an ORM to help manage this translation layer, then you'll end up re-implementing your own. Only in the loose sense that you have to put the data into an object. That's a tiny portion of what most ORMs actually do. I just cloned the hibernate-orm repo and, even excluding the .git files and /test/ directories, it has about 30 MB of source. There's a lot in there.