We have abandoned ORMs completely for a repository based approach. It is much more satisfying to write a function to extract/insert whatever you want into a dat

We have abandoned ORMs completely for a repository based approach. It is much more satisfying to write a function to extract/insert whatever you want into a database using the full expressiveness of their query language, and power of the database. The premise of having something abstract the DB is cool but with ORMs you lose expressiveness, and are now fighting the syntax and operation of it. The overhead is also large.