Dapper VS Knex

In both samples to get all records and to get a single record works fine but there is a better way to perform the same work using NuGet package Dapper. Dapper is extremely easy to use and built with performance in mind. In the source code provided the basic operations are covered, to take things to the next level and read the information at GitHub, the following page and other code samples in the following repository.

In this article learn how to use Dapper an open-source object-relational mapping (ORM) library for .NET and .NET Core applications. Unlike many articles out there, this one will provide source code to try everything out that is shown in an easy-to-follow way by beginning with a single table then in part two of this series will work with multiple tables.

Dapper

I will be using Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net along with MySqlConnector.

Maybe the more basic approach to dapper is their documentation https://github.com/DapperLib/Dapper the readme but again most likely you not gonna understand

I think EF Core & EF are the successors to LINQ to SQL that you'd wanna look into, and/or Dapper if you wanna go lower.

The main maintainers of Dapper no longer work at Stack, but they're active enough to comment on recent pull requests: https://github.com/DapperLib/Dapper/pull/1887.

MarieDB and dapper https://github.com/DapperLib/Dapper

Knex.js

AdonisJS core team has created/maintains Lucid. It is a SQL query builder, and an Active Record ORM built on top of Knex.

Now, why not use an ORM? I've seen performance issues too many times with ORMs. I prefer writing my own SQL to avoid surprises. After all, I know the database schema and writing code for a specific purpose very often leads to better performance than generic code. ORMs have to support all kinds of database schemas. I only have to support mine. Having successfully used Knex.js in NodeJS (a popular query builder) in the past, I know writing SQL queries myself is not hard and provides very good performance.

Given the dynamic nature of the schema, we employ Knex, a query builder, for database access.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/knex - 779 issues

# related: https://github.com/knex/knex/issues/2354

This article will be focused on a security issue that I found in Knex and how to mitigate it, but I'll also talk briefly about the social aspects of this problem.

SQL is an old, irregular language to work with, but it is better known than HCL and SQL already has it's own Pulumi/CDK in the form of every ORM with introspection (like Javascript's Prisma, Python's Django, Go's XO etc) and QueryBuilder (LINQ, Knex, etc) in whatever programming language you prefer. You probably already know it.