Honestly, ORM is an unnecessary layer most of the time. You can have database schemas, and you can have software schemas, and they don't necessarily need to co

Honestly, ORM is an unnecessary layer most of the time. You can have database schemas, and you can have software schemas, and they don't necessarily need to coincide as long as your database schema allows efficient queries. The rest of your relational-manager-logic can be embedded in the post-processing methods you apply to the query results.