There is a trend in programming language design toward adopting the query and concurrency management mechanisms 
that have proven successful for databases, in the form of integrated query languages and transactional memory.  
We focus on the demands placed on Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) in order to support comprehension queries, 
as known from LINQ and Scala. The additional expressive power enables the application of optimization techniques originating 
in the field of databases (query unnesting, ordering final instead of intermediate results, etc). 
As an interim step toward the proposed query integration, we describe a translator from a functional query language 
(comparable to LINQ) into JPQL, the query language of ORM engines following the JPA standard (JSR-317). 
A summary of related and ongoing work and an outlook of future work conclude this position paper.