Entity Framework vs MyBatis

Overview

Entity Framework

Stacks2.1K

Followers240

Votes19

MyBatis

Stacks279

Followers178

Votes17

GitHub Stars20.3K

Forks13.0K

MyBatis vs Entity Framework: What are the differences?

What is MyBatis? SQL Mapper Framework for Java. 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.

What is Entity Framework? An object-relational mapper that enables .NET developers to work with relational data. 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.

MyBatis belongs to "Java Tools" category of the tech stack, while Entity Framework can be primarily classified under "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)".

MyBatis and Entity Framework are both open source tools. MyBatis with 11.7K GitHub stars and 7.39K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Entity Framework with 1.02K GitHub stars and 445 GitHub forks.

AspNet Zero, Millennium Health, and Pinnacle Sports are some of the popular companies that use Entity Framework, whereas MyBatis is used by Jobsrepublic, Luxottica Retail, and Consignet. Entity Framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 25 company stacks & 33 developers stacks; compared to MyBatis, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Entity Framework	MyBatis
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.	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.
ORM, Work with relational data using domain-specific objects;Eliminates the need for most of the data-access code	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 20.3K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 13.0K
Stacks 2.1K	Stacks 279
Followers 240	Followers 178
Votes 19	Votes 17
Pros & Cons
Pros 6 LINQ 3 Strongly Object-Oriented 3 Object Oriented 2 Multiple approach (Model/Database/Code) first 2 Code first approach	Pros 6 Easy to use 3 Extensions 3 Integrated with Spring 3 Flexible 2 Data-first support
Integrations
Firebird .NET Oracle PostgreSQL SQLite MySQL Microsoft SQL Server IBM DB2	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Entity Framework, MyBatis?

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.

Quarkus

It tailors your application for GraalVM and HotSpot. Amazingly fast boot time, incredibly low RSS memory (not just heap size!) offering near instant scale up and high density memory utilization in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. We use a technique we call compile time boot.

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.

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.

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

guava

The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based projects: collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and so forth.