FWIW, I think the sweet spot for most web apps is to use an ORM on top of database views. This gives you the power and performance of SQL, but avoids the impeda

FWIW, I think the sweet spot for most web apps is to use an ORM on top of database views. This gives you the power and performance of SQL, but avoids the impedance mismatch of the ORM, since you’re defining what data will be on your objects at the database level.