Isn't the ORM the mapper from rows to objects? Every ORM I've used has support for "plain sql", in addition to a query builder/dsl. How are you deserializing q

Isn't the ORM the mapper from rows to objects? Every ORM I've used has support for "plain sql", in addition to a query builder/dsl. How are you deserializing query results and serializing inputs? For context: I work on web apps