[celdon25]

> ORMs often lay their data out in a way that is highly language dependent.

Which ORMs did you use? This doesn't sound normal at all. Never saw this with Rails, Ecto, EF, Sybase, or even the legacy project I once worked on that had 4 different ORMs for different parts of the same backend process, using the same database (some were very old and behind slowly phased out over time). Maybe you have ORM confused with CMS (content management system). A CMS can do those things, but that is not an ORM.

> There is a high chance you are going to want to access this data with a different language.

There are tools for that, such as ETL, read replicas, data warehouses, code generators, raw sql, stored procedures, views, just off the top of my head.