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Absolutely, the main feature any ORM needs before I will consider it, is how easy is it to write raw SQL with the ORM. Because you always have to do this on every large application, and if an ORM gets in your way, it's more hindrance than helpful. Actually love Laravel's ORM Eloquent, because it works for 99% cases, and gets out of your way and lets you populate Laravel models with raw SQL queries when you want to. After using many ORMs in many languages, it's still my favorite.