To be clear, this is FUD. If you know how to make SQA emit the right SQL, the performance is basically the same as psycopg2 + your custom code, usually better.

To be clear, this is FUD. If you know how to make SQA emit the right SQL, the performance is basically the same as psycopg2 + your custom code, usually better. I've written many high volume SQA services and never once saw SQA per se as the bottleneck.