Advantages of the ORM are illustrated below.

·         Automatic generation of SQL statements – The ORM layer generates automatically SQL statements.  This helps the programmers concentrate more on the actual business logic removing the overhead of the SQL statements.

·         Support of the Multiple Databases – Majority of the ORM packages available in the market support ANSI SQL standards.  Hence, they can be used with most of the RDBMS.  This can very useful in product development.

·         ORM emphasizes on fully following the object oriented approach.  Every thing is an object. Database CRUD operations are typically called as a function.  We will have functions on the business objects like Save, Update and Delete.