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Martin Fowler: ORM Hate (martinfowler.com)

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This is a pragmatic piece of Fowler on the rather dry topic of Object-relational mappings - in short, the attempt to marry an object-oriented code base with a relational data base.

Usually you'd get enough early success to commit deeply to the framework and only after a while did you realize you were in a quagmire - this is where I sympathize greatly with Ted Neward's famous quote that object-relational mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science

What Fowler refers to here, is Ted Neward's article "The Vietnam Of Computer Science"

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[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 1 points 1 day ago

Or using pure sql with hibernate substitutions and at most the columns fields at the entities for deserialization, instead of using a full orm (when inserting, hibernate does a select to update the entity, but this is because hibernate is bad, why the hell it would need to do that?).

Life is hard on java, jooq and other ones are a no no at my job, blaze persistence seems cool, but it's still slow, panache is just "magic" like hibernate.