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The scaling problem is as future based and hypothetical as the switching issue. Which is it? Care about future hypotheticals or no?

I use Django a lot and have found the ORM invaluable for all use cases and can be optimised when needed, with some friction.

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One way to have the best of both worlds for situations where you have complicated read queries is to create database views for the queries. You can then define them as an unmanaged table in Django (requires some boilerplate) and query them in a simple way as if they were a normal ORM model.

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