Adding to some of the anti-orm sentiment above: I always find that orm's are trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist. The proportion of time (and th

Adding to some of the anti-orm sentiment above: I always find that orm's are trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist. The proportion of time (and therefore cost) spent on a project writing SQL is orders of magnitude less than time spent on things like performance, scalability, user-experience, testing etc. You might have something that only maps data from your results into your language of choice but, again, if small, slightly repetitive tasks like this are affecting your ability to deliver your software, you have bigger problems. Sure - database design is important - but that you have to do that regardless.