From the quick searching I've done, I think that Django predates SQLAlchemy by nearly a year (July 2005 and May 2006 respectively). Alchemy has a lot more powe

From the quick searching I've done, I think that Django predates SQLAlchemy by nearly a year (July 2005 and May 2006 respectively). Alchemy has a lot more power behind it, but the Django ORM is (arguably) easier to use for the majority of web use cases. I had a hand in opening up the Django ORM with the introduction/formalisation of Query Expressions (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/releases/1.8/#query-expressions-conditional-expressions-and-database-functions https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/releases/1.8/#query-ex...), and others are doing significant work in cleaning up the ORM internals so that more complex features can be layered on in core and by users.