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gaius on June 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: ORM is an anti-pattern

treating the underlying data storage as a "dumb" datastore that could just as easily be sqlite or H2 as MySQL or Postgres

If you're doing that then you've missed the point of a database and might as well be using flatfiles.

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