3 ms·And the ORM is written in... Ruby? So then we are back to "Ruby is slow".by rob74 4y agoAnd the ORM is written in... Ruby? So then we are back to "Ruby is slow".boxed 4y agoSQLAlchemy is python. Which is slower than Ruby :Ptomwojcik 4y agoThat's apples to oranges. Python is slower, but Sqlalchemy ORM might be able to fetch results faster than Ruby. Though I'd assume the difference would be neglectible.