ORM

Object-Relational Mapping – You Are Doing it Wrong

Nothing gets DBAs more riled up than a developer infatuated with an Object-Relational Mapper. ORMs work great at mapping from relational to objects, but can be a crutch. If you want to make your DBA (and your users happy), you’ll want to use your ORM intelligently.

Project stORM Open Source ORM for SQLite on Android

stORM is a simple open source template-based Object Relational Mapping tool for Android SQLite. is This new offering aims for a streamlined developer experience (only two annotations required) and solid performance (preferring code generation over reflection). stORM is extensible, minimally intrusive, and offers built-in CSV backup / restore capabilities to facilitate database version upgrades.

Pony Object-Relational Mapper

Pony is an object-relational mapper. The most interesting feature of Pony is its ability to write queries to the database using generator expressions. Pony works with entities which are mapped to a SQL database.

Kill Your ORM

This video shows how to use the new dynamic features of C# 4 to create a data access tool that strips away the crufty constructs of traditional ORMs (Entity Framework, NHibernate) and embraces SQL head–on. See how simple it can be to work with data while destroying your current ORM in both productivity and performance. …

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Advanced ColdFusion ORM

Explore the underlying object-relational mapping (ORM) framework in ColdFusion 9. Tap into the power of Hibernate to build scalable and high-performing applications. This is a very technical session requiring advanced skills with ColdFusion.