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		prophesi 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Putting a full power search engine in Ecto Ecto isn't an ORM like ActiveRecord or Hibernate. It's a DSL for building queries and you can always drop down into raw SQL if you'd like. Moebius looks like Ecto except now you no longer have schema validations and the like.

sph 9 months ago [–]

Yes. It's more of a data mapper and composable DSL over SQL than an "object-relational mapper", since indeed there are no stateful objects in Elixir.

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