Like any tool, ORMs are appropriate for some uses, and not for others. In the Python world, I like SQLAlchemy. It performs well, it's fairly well documented (i

Like any tool, ORMs are appropriate for some uses, and not for others. In the Python world, I like SQLAlchemy. It performs well, it's fairly well documented (improving, though I've had to read source code to figure out options before), and it's not tied to a web framework, the way I believe Django's is.