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Hibernate vs Entity Framework: What are the differences?
Developers describe Hibernate as "Idiomatic persistence for Java and relational databases". Hibernate is a suite of open source projects around domain models. The flagship project is Hibernate ORM, the Object Relational Mapper. On the other hand, Entity Framework is detailed as "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.
Hibernate and Entity Framework can be primarily classified as "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)" tools.
Entity Framework is an open source tool with 1.02K GitHub stars and 445 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Entity Framework's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Hibernate has a broader approval, being mentioned in 135 company stacks & 417 developers stacks; compared to Entity Framework, which is listed in 25 company stacks and 33 developer stacks.
Pros of Entity Framework
- Object Oriented2
- Strongly Object-Oriented2
- Multiple approach (Model/Database/Code) first2
- LINQ2
- Code first approach2
- Model first approach1
- Auto generated code1
- Strongly typed entities1
- Database first0
Pros of Hibernate
- Easy ORM19
- Easy transaction definition7
- Is integrated with spring jpa1
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Cons of Entity Framework
Cons of Hibernate
- Can't control proxy associations when entity graph used3