What is 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.
Dapper is a tool in the Object Relational Mapper (ORM) category of a tech stack.
Dapper is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Dapper's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Dapper?
Companies
14 companies reportedly use Dapper in their tech stacks, including FinTech, Business Logic, and dgpays.
Developers
112 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Dapper.
Dapper Integrations
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite, and .NET are some of the popular tools that integrate with Dapper. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Dapper.
Pros of Dapper
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Dapper's Features
- Parameterized queries
- List Support
- Literal replacements
- Multi Mapping
Dapper Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Dapper?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
