[FridgeSeal]

What are you doing to your database? Lol

Most databases I’ve dealt with will happily outstrip Python for a good chunk of the common queries.

[DougMerritt]

Measuring database speed is ultimately I/O bound, measuring a language's speed is typically CPU-bound.

[Doxin]

For sure, but django for instance is really good at turning something that ought to be one query into N+1 queries.

[fud101]

how do you deal with this?

[Doxin]

In my experience? optimize things once it turns out to be a problem. It's not easy though and one of the many reasons I don't love the django ORM.

[WhatTheFlak]

Don't abuse the damn ORM.

And write SQL directly for medium complexity queries.