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GreenDAO vs MikroORM: What are the differences?
Developers describe GreenDAO as "An open source Android ORM making development for SQLite databases". It is an open source Android ORM making development for SQLite databases fun again. It relieves developers from dealing with low-level database requirements while saving development time. On the other hand, MikroORM is detailed as "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.
GreenDAO can be classified as a tool in the "Mobile Database" category, while MikroORM is grouped under "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)".
Some of the features offered by GreenDAO are:
- Object relation mapping (ORM)
- Offers an object oriented interface to data stored in the relational database SQLite
- Performance. Of all ORMs we know, its the fastest
On the other hand, MikroORM provides the following key features:
- Implicit Transactions
- DRY Entities
- Supports both SQL and NoSQL
GreenDAO and MikroORM are both open source tools. GreenDAO with 12K GitHub stars and 2.82K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than MikroORM with 705 GitHub stars and 40 GitHub forks.
Pros of GreenDAO
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