Umm .., no .. if you have a large number of tables and need ACID compliance, I've found ORMs to be horrid. They hide a lot of details, which cause massive perfo

Umm .., no .. if you have a large number of tables and need ACID compliance, I've found ORMs to be horrid. They hide a lot of details, which cause massive performance headaches later on. I just noticed you said almost. Maybe this is the exceptional case you were thinking of :)