I haven't been a big fan of ORM's even before DataMapper in Ruby. I found that it was too easy to make non-performant queries and found myself writing raw SQL a

I haven't been a big fan of ORM's even before DataMapper in Ruby. I found that it was too easy to make non-performant queries and found myself writing raw SQL anyway. Some argue that using an ORM means you can switch underlying database technologies on a whim. I think this is an incredibly weak argument. How often do people truly switch database technologies? I created a small wrapper around the node postgres library to make querying a little easier. Have a look at https://github.com/joeandaverde/tinypg https://github.com/joeandaverde/tinypg - It's a no frills library that makes it easy to execute SQL files as prepared statements and pass parameters as keys on objects.