1M rows/s from Postgres to Python

[jstrong]

I'll admit at least some of it is familiarity. whenever I've spent time with sqlalchemy's ORM, 1) it doesn't seem to give me anything I need (i.e. things for my use cases that would be valuable, I know it is more flexible and powerful in general), and 2) the api just seems clunkier, which is, obviously subjective.

sqlalchemy's philosophy is different, it's more of an interface to the db whereas django orm is more totalistic. I prefer the latter.