In modern web development, we crave abstraction. We want our data to feel like a collection of objects, clean, predictable, and type-safe.

Enter the Object-Relational Mapper (ORM). Tools like TypeORM, Prisma, and Sequelize have saved developers millions of lines of boilerplate SQL. They let us stay in "TypeScript land," treating database tables like simple classes.

But there is a fundamental conflict at play:

ORMs optimize for Developer Experience (DX)

Databases optimize for Execution Plans