Scala Play! Using anorm or ORM

Question

It seems that all the sample applications provided by the Play! framework make use of anorm for persistence. What is the reason for choosing anorm over an ORM? If you are using an ORM, what are you using and why?

Answer 1

anorm is a meta acronym for Anorm is Not an Object Relational Mapper, hence it is not an ORM.

And therein lies the answer--it's for those of us who want to be hands-on with their SQL queries.