John Salerno wrote: > Are there any major differences between these two? It seems they can > both be used with TurboGears, and SQLAlchemy with Django. I'm just > wondering what everyone's preference is, and why, and if there are even > more choices for ORM. > > Thanks.
You can review the Persit Case, which will shortly evaluate the stated ORM's: http://case.lazaridis.com/wiki/Persist It is possibly of importance to remember some requirements which should be relevant for an persistency mechanism targetting an OO language: Requirements * Uses standard OO Terminology on the API side o free of SQL/Relational terminology for ORM Tools * Transparency (minimal or no difference to standard objects of the language) o Inheritance * Includes Automated Schema Evolution Support o Development Schema Evolution (focusing on simplicity and conveniency etc.) o Production Schema Evolution (focusing on integrity, stability etc.) * Support Standard ODBMS API's * Support of Standards within the language-domain (e.g. Python) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
