I've been using SQLAlchemy and the raw SQL/ORM dilemma is really not a thing. Alchemy does nice type checking, coercing, packing results into a dict etc. withou

I've been using SQLAlchemy and the raw SQL/ORM dilemma is really not a thing. Alchemy does nice type checking, coercing, packing results into a dict etc. without the headache of an ORM. I'm sure there's a price to pay in terms of performance but for what I do (still in the thousands of rows per second) it really doesn't matter.