A good query builder is more important than ORM imo. That's what I like about sqlalchemy. The query builder pretty much maps 1:1 to SQL and you can use it with

A good query builder is more important than ORM imo. That's what I like about sqlalchemy. The query builder pretty much maps 1:1 to SQL and you can use it with or without the ORM mapping. Most of my projects have a mix of both along with plain SQL for some of the meatier queries.