They are not the same and probably many modern ORM&#x27;s share more in common with jOOQ than Torgue has in common with jOOQ. An example would be schema generation. jOOQ is reverse schema based. You make your schema with whatever schema evolution tools you like (Flyway is the most common) and then run the code generator. Torque is the opposite (notice they say starting point not final) not to mention its also XML based.<p>Oh and jOOQ has an extremely powerful DSL that is close to 1-1 with SQL and whole bunch of reflection based conversion abilities (including dotted path data binding which I am happy to say I inspired the author of jOOQ to add :) )