DBFlow vs Entity Framework

Overview

Entity Framework

Stacks2.1K

Followers240

Votes19

DBFlow

Stacks16

Followers14

Votes3

GitHub Stars4.9K

Forks597

DBFlow vs Entity Framework: What are the differences?

DBFlow: *Simple ORM android database library *. It is fast, efficient, and feature-rich Kotlin database library built on SQLite for Android. It utilizes annotation processing to generate SQLite boilerplate for you and provides a powerful SQLite query language that makes using SQLite a joy; 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.

DBFlow and Entity Framework can be categorized as "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)" tools.

DBFlow and Entity Framework are both open source tools. DBFlow with 4.67K GitHub stars and 597 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Entity Framework with 1.02K GitHub stars and 445 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Entity Framework	DBFlow
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 fast, efficient, and feature-rich Kotlin database library built on SQLite for Android. It utilizes annotation processing to generate SQLite boilerplate for you and provides a powerful SQLite query language that makes using SQLite a joy.
ORM, Work with relational data using domain-specific objects;Eliminates the need for most of the data-access code	Feature-rich; Kotlin database library; Built on SQLite
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 4.9K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 597
Stacks 2.1K	Stacks 16
Followers 240	Followers 14
Votes 19	Votes 3
Pros & Cons
Pros 6 LINQ 3 Strongly Object-Oriented 3 Object Oriented 2 Multiple approach (Model/Database/Code) first 2 Code first approach	Pros 1 Open Source 1 Easy to use 1 SQLite Cons 1 Doesn't support anything other than SQLite
Integrations
Firebird .NET Oracle PostgreSQL SQLite MySQL Microsoft SQL Server IBM DB2	Kotlin Android OS SQLite RxJava

What are some alternatives to Entity Framework, DBFlow?

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.

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.

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.

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.