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  5. Ebean vs MikroORM

Ebean vs MikroORM

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Overview

Ebean
Ebean
Stacks10
Followers21
Votes0
GitHub Stars1.5K
Forks269
MikroORM
MikroORM
Stacks18
Followers68
Votes24
GitHub Stars8.6K
Forks599

Ebean vs MikroORM: What are the differences?

What is Ebean? Provides multiple levels of abstraction from ORM. It is an object-relational mapping product written in Java. It is designed to be simpler to use and understand than JPA or JDO products.

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

Ebean and MikroORM belong to "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Ebean are:

  • Change log
  • Read auditing
  • Encryption

On the other hand, MikroORM provides the following key features:

  • Implicit Transactions
  • DRY Entities
  • Supports both SQL and NoSQL

Ebean and MikroORM are both open source tools. It seems that Ebean with 1.03K GitHub stars and 217 forks on GitHub has more adoption than MikroORM with 705 GitHub stars and 40 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Ebean
Ebean
MikroORM
MikroORM

It is an object-relational mapping product written in Java. It is designed to be simpler to use and understand than JPA or JDO products.

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

Change log; Read auditing; Encryption; DB Migration; JSON in DB; JSON Marshalling; Event listening
Implicit Transactions; DRY Entities; Supports both SQL and NoSQL; Clean and Simple Entity Definition; Identity Map; Entity References; Using Entity Constructors; Modelling Relationships; Collections; Unit of Work; Transactions; Cascading persist and remove; Using QueryBuilder; Preloading Deeply Nested Structures via populate; Property Validation; Lifecycle Hooks; Vanilla JS Support; Schema Generator; Entity Generator
Statistics
GitHub Stars
1.5K
GitHub Stars
8.6K
GitHub Forks
269
GitHub Forks
599
Stacks
10
Stacks
18
Followers
21
Followers
68
Votes
0
Votes
24
Pros & Cons
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Pros
  • 5
    Typescript
  • 4
    Supports both SQL and NoSQL
  • 3
    DRY Entities
  • 3
    Powered by Unit of Work and Identity Map
  • 3
    Allows multiple ways to define entities
Integrations
Docker
Docker
MySQL
MySQL
Oracle
Oracle
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
MariaDB
MariaDB
Clickhouse
Clickhouse
SQLite
SQLite
CockroachDB
CockroachDB
H2 Database
H2 Database
Safari
Safari

What are some alternatives to Ebean, MikroORM?

Sequelize

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

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

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

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.

Entity Framework

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

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

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.

Entity Framework Core

Entity Framework Core

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.

SQLAlchemy

SQLAlchemy

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

Dapper

Dapper

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.

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