Any Python ORMs worthy of production?

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2 years ago

I’m hoping for something battle-tested that supports async/await and migrations. If your answer is some variation of “real programmers don’t use ORMs”... fair enough, I suppose. But here are the options as I see them:

- Django: very mature ORM, migration support is great. But it doesn’t support async/await (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/async/), and these days FastAPI seems like a better option. FastAPI just needs an ORM, so =>

- SQLModel: from @tiangolo who created FastAPI, clean and good Pydantic support, so this would be my default option, but even though it seems to support async/await the doc page is blank (https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/advanced/), and for migrations you resort to the underlying =>

- SQLAlchemy: seems by far the largest/best supported, has async/await, has migrations through Alembic (it seems not as fully-featured as Django’s?), but trying to use it has felt very kludgy/painful/verbose.

- Tortoise: the README claims to fulfill my dreams, but I haven’t met anyone yet using it in prod? Anyone have experience they can share?

- Any others I missed?

Meanwhile in the JS/TS ecosystem, Prisma just added preview support for JOINs 2 weeks ago (https://github.com/prisma/prisma/releases/tag/5.7.0 !?!) and yet it seems ubiquitous (though I hear everyone’s moving to Drizzle).

Advice greatly appreciated

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