"If your project really does not need any relational data features, then ORM will work perfectly for you, but then you have a different problem: you're using the wrong datastore. The overhead of a relational datastore is enormous; this is a large part of why NoSQL data stores are so much faster."

I have never been able to receive a straight answer to this question: Is there a "NoSQL" database that provides the same ACID properties that major RDBMS databases do? Things like "eventual consistency" are entirely unacceptable for the software that I work on.