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That's ultimately true of any framework, but ORMs are a beast all their own. Having a light abstraction framework on top of SQL, that ultimately respects it, makes a huge difference at the end of the day. No magic, just results. I've watched coworkers spend days tracking down obscure performance issues related to mapping in Hibernate that just wouldn't occur when using something like jOOQ. The only overhead I get is possibly having some DTOs to map into via a simple interface. Hardly more effort than one would expend configuring Hibernate mappings what with its myriad options.