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score 154 · Answer 1

DevExpress XPO

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Database support

Most popular databases are supported, including MS Access, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and Oracle. See More

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Disconnected objects

Every classes have to inherits from an ancestor object, very hard disconnect objects support. See More

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.NET Core support

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No Migrations support

Doesn't have the ability to apply schema migration steps based on the schema version found in the database at startup. See More

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score 19 · Answer 2

Hibernate ORM

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Leader

There are countless great books and articles, it's taught at universities, and easy to find both skilled labour and advanced consultants . See More

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OSS

Fully open source, managed by the tought leaders in the Java community, decision making is open yet sponsored and legally backed by Red Hat. See More

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Advanced extension points

Hibernate ORM sports several advanced extensions such as Hibernate Search providing Lucene and Elasticsearch full-text search, Hibernate Spatial for GIS extensions, Envers for versioning and temporal queries, Hibernate OGM to use NoSQL as your primary datastore, advanced caching integrations and various connection pools. See More

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Actively maintained

Hibernate was very innovative from the beginning but is still very actively developed, improving significantly every release. See More

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High Performance

ORMs are typically not easy to scale yet the Hibernate team has been very sensitive to this topic, constantly optimising the code further and adding various advanced features to avoid paying a high cost for the convenience. See More

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Extensive integration points

Most other successful projects in the Java community integrate with Hibernate, making integration often a solved problem. See More

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score 17 · Answer 3

LLBLGen Pro

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Async API

The runtime framework offers a full Async API for retrieval of data and object persistence, using .NET async/await statements to build truly asynchronous applications. Usable in Linq, QuerySpec and the Low-Level API. See More

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Not free

No free plan available. See More

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Multi framework support

Besides the LLBLGen Pro Runtime Framework, it supports Entity Framework Core / Full, NHibernate and Linq to Sql. See More

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Fast and powerful

After 10 years using it, you just work with your C# objects. Never had to go for work arounds. Never complained with performance (some thousand concurrent connections). See More

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Database first / Model first

Choice between Database first or Model first approach. See More

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score 53 · Answer 4

Entity Framework

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Migrations API

List all versions of a schema, apply one or go back to a previous version. See More

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Complicated

For simple data storage scenarios, EF may be unnecessarily complicated to learn. See More

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Database support

Supports most popular databases. See More

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Performance

Micro-ORMs have better performance. See More

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Documentation

Better than the chaotic and confusing NHibernate documentation. See More

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Typesafe queries

Linq2Sql allows writing queries using the actual ORM types. This prevents issues when modifying the schema/entities. See More

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Avoids creation of inline SQL queries

No longer do you have to create/close SQL connections every time you want to interact with the database. You also don't have to maintain a database reader to handle the results retrieved from the database; all of this functionality is easily handled through LINQ queries and Entity Framework. See More

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Database agnostic

You can quite easily migrate from using one DB technology to another. See More

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Non intrusive object model

Object model is non-intrusive and consistent. See More

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