Even though it is terribly out of fashion, the performance of database interface classes (a database access layer) that wraps and abstracts SQL prepared stateme

Even though it is terribly out of fashion, the performance of database interface classes (a database access layer) that wraps and abstracts SQL prepared statements and/or stored procedure calls is almost always much more efficient than ORM when the SQL written by someone minimally SQL competent. ORM can be much faster to implement, ah- classic tradeoffs.