> Not really. Without ORM, your entire application is now tied to relations (i.e. sets of tuples) instead of rich graph structures (i.e. objects), but the relat

> Not really. Without ORM, your entire application is now tied to relations (i.e. sets of tuples) instead of rich graph structures (i.e. objects), but the relation need not be equal to the relation returned by the query. And, in some edge-cases, the relation is more useful than the object graph.