Taking a Step Back From ORMs and a Parallel to the Database World
Jeff Davis:
So, my proposal is this: take a step back from ORMs, and consider working more closely with SQL and a good database driver. Try to work with the database, and find out what it has to offer; don’t use layers of indirection to avoid knowing about the database. See what you like and don’t like about the process after an honest assessment, and whether ORMs are a real improvement or a distracting complication.
I know a lot of applications using ORMs that worked perfectly fine. And I know applications that had to go around the ORMs or even got rid completely of them.
Here is a parallel to think about: ORM vs SQL is similar to always using a relational database versus using the storage solution that better fits the problem—as in using a NoSQL database or going polyglot persistence. An ORM comes with the advantage of keeping you inside a single paradigm (object oriented) at the cost of not being able to (easily) use the full power of the underlying storage.
Original title and link: Taking a Step Back From ORMs and a Parallel to the Database World (©myNoSQL)
via: http://thoughts.davisjeff.com/2012/02/26/taking-a-step-back-from-orms/
