It's hard to write an asynchronous ORM though. Your options are either to use some existing synchronous ORM (like SQLAlchemy) in a thread pool (`loop.run_in_executor`) or use more low-level db driver:
https://github.com/aio-libs/aiopg#example-of-sqlalchemy-opti...
psycogreen is one such attempt with gevent - it works pretty well actually.
that actually illustrates the confusion I'm having - gevent+py2.7 is actually working with all the major frameworks and giving all these performance benefits.
https://peewee-async.readthedocs.org