Here, here! ORMs seem to be great if you are doing prototyping, but most of my analysis tools have to be built against existing datasets or ecosystems. I'm ei

Here, here! ORMs seem to be great if you are doing prototyping, but most of my analysis tools have to be built against existing datasets or ecosystems. I'm either shoehorning in two databases from two separate architectures together or at the very least working with one that is populated by another tool. ORMs fall flat on their face in these circumstances, and I'm left with having to fight against it in cases where it may be tightly coupled. One of the biggest problems I have had with a lot of the cool new frameworks is that they make basic assumptions about how they will use them.