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> Sqlalchemy stands out as a library having probably one of the most complete and pragmatic APIs for database access across all languages.

I can't disagree more. Identity map based ORMs are _awful_ to use, in almost every way.

What's your gripe with identity map specifically? The map is bound to a session which are short lived in SQA and usually map to a single transaction.

What’s bad about them?