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Dapper vs MikroORM: What are the differences?
What is Dapper? A simple object mapper for .Net. 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.
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.
Dapper and MikroORM belong to "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Dapper are:
- Parameterized queries
- List Support
- Literal replacements
On the other hand, MikroORM provides the following key features:
- Implicit Transactions
- DRY Entities
- Supports both SQL and NoSQL
MikroORM is an open source tool with 1.63K GitHub stars and 87 GitHub forks. Here's a link to MikroORM's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Dapper
- Fastest ORM6
Pros of MikroORM
- Typescript5
- Supports both SQL and NoSQL4
- Powered by Unit of Work and Identity Map3
- Allows multiple ways to define entities3
- DRY Entities3
- Implicit Transactions2
- SQL layer built on top of Knex2
- EntityGenerator to reverse engineer existing database2