Is using ORM a bad idea?
ORMs offer a frictionless development experience when working with relational databases. Still, some minds in the industry feel that using an ORM is not a good idea. Of all the reasons presented against using ORMs, the two most commonly given are as follows:
- ORMs abstract away databases, and hence, the important database concepts that are essential for any developer to master usually get ignored
- The use of ORMs results in a performance degradation of the application
It will be interesting to drill deeper into these reasons. It is true that ORMs abstract away databases and handle almost all database interactions for you in a transparent way. You do not need to bother yourself with a deeper understanding of how an ORM is fetching ...
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