We heard so much negativity about SQLAlchemy that we decided to make our own lightweight query builder instead. 8 months later, and we're using SQLAlchemy... T

We heard so much negativity about SQLAlchemy that we decided to make our own lightweight query builder instead. 8 months later, and we're using SQLAlchemy... The SQL language is wildly complex. It is seriously not trivial to make a fully featured query builder. Forget the actual 'relational mapping' part.