For 80% of use cases all you're doing is Person.find(id), Items.top(10), user.email, etc. ORMs are great for productivity, then eventually you run into a comple

For 80% of use cases all you're doing is Person.find(id), Items.top(10), user.email, etc. ORMs are great for productivity, then eventually you run into a complex query where you want to join a bunch of tables, sort, filter, etc. In these cases, the best practice is to do this in SQL in my opinion. All ORMs give you the ability to get an object by executing raw sql. It's not an either or, it's a both and for general productivity.