Thoughts on SQL vs ORM

[Walter Hurry]

On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:03:08 -0800, rusi wrote:

> On Feb 6, 5:58 pm, Andriy Kornatskyy <andriy.kornats... at live.com> wrote:
>> The question of persistence implementation arise often. I found
>> repository pattern very valuable due to separation of concerns, mediate
>> between domain model and data source (mock, file, database, web
>> service, etc).
>>
>> The database data source is somewhat specific since you can proceed
>> with SQL functions or ORM. Here are some thoughts why you might prefer
>> SQL functions over ORM in your next project:
>>
>> http://mindref.blogspot.com/2013/02/sql-vs-orm.html
>>
>> Comments or suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Andriy Kornatskyy
> 
> Interesting read. Your first 2 points:
> 1. It is not valid to think that relational model in database is domain
> model of application. They are different (except some trivial cases).
> 2. … Design your domain model with plain objects only
> 
> And then later you go on to recommend SQL over ORM. So its not clear
> which side you are on!
> 
> My own very preliminary thoughts on this:
> SQL is basically a functional language.
> OOP is just imperative programming with some syntactic sugar, name-
> spacing etc.
> IOW OOP is a lower level paradigm than FP because it deals with the
> 'how' more than the 'what.'
> 
> Object-relational impedance mismatch happens because of the opposite
> reason to what people seem to believe: Because the higher-level SQL is
> pulled down into the lower-level OO mindset and not the other way around

I'm afraid I don't understand what all that means.

But I invariably go for SQL over any abstraction paradigm.