Dapper vs Entity Framework Core

Overview

Dapper

Stacks574

Followers85

Votes6

Entity Framework Core

Stacks1.1K

Followers225

Votes16

GitHub Stars9.0K

Forks2.3K

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Detailed Comparison

Dapper	Entity Framework Core
It is an object-relational mapping product for the Microsoft.NET platform: it provides a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database.	It is a lightweight, extensible, open source and cross-platform version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology. It can serve as an object-relational mapper (O/RM), enabling .NET developers to work with a database using .NET objects, and eliminating the need for most of the data-access code they usually need to write.
Parameterized queries; List Support; Literal replacements; Multi Mapping	Lightweight ;Extensible , Cross Platform; ORM; .NET Core; .NET Framework
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 9.0K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 2.3K
Stacks 574	Stacks 1.1K
Followers 85	Followers 225
Votes 6	Votes 16
Pros & Cons
Pros 6 Fastest ORM	Pros 7 Fits very well with Microsoft technologies 4 Fast 2 Linq 1 Easy to use 1 Multiple Database provider Cons 1 Dbcontext
Integrations
MySQL SQLite Microsoft SQL Server .NET Oracle PostgreSQL Firebird	Firebird PostgreSQL Oracle Azure Cosmos DB MariaDB Microsoft Access SQLite MySQL .NET .NET Core

What are some alternatives to Dapper, Entity Framework Core?

Sequelize

Sequelize is a promise-based ORM for Node.js and io.js. It supports the dialects PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and MSSQL and features solid transaction support, relations, read replication and more.

Prisma

Prisma is an open-source database toolkit. It replaces traditional ORMs and makes database access easy with an auto-generated query builder for TypeScript & Node.js.

Hibernate

Hibernate is a suite of open source projects around domain models. The flagship project is Hibernate ORM, the Object Relational Mapper.

Doctrine 2

Doctrine 2 sits on top of a powerful database abstraction layer (DBAL). One of its key features is the option to write database queries in a proprietary object oriented SQL dialect called Doctrine Query Language (DQL), inspired by Hibernates HQL.

MikroORM

TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases.

Entity Framework

It is an object-relational mapper that enables .NET developers to work with relational data using domain-specific objects. It eliminates the need for most of the data-access code that developers usually need to write.

peewee

A small, expressive orm, written in python (2.6+, 3.2+), with built-in support for sqlite, mysql and postgresql and special extensions like hstore.

MyBatis

It is a first class persistence framework with support for custom SQL, stored procedures and advanced mappings. It eliminates almost all of the JDBC code and manual setting of parameters and retrieval of results. It can use simple XML or Annotations for configuration and map primitives, Map interfaces and Java POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) to database records.

SQLAlchemy

SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.

NHibernate

It is a mature, open source object-relational mapper for the .NET framework. It's actively developed, fully featured and used in thousands of successful projects.