Entity Framework VS NHibernate

Compare Entity Framework vs NHibernate and see what are their differences.

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Entity Framework NHibernate
87 4
13,342 2,102
1.3% 0.4%
9.9 8.4
1 day ago 3 days ago
C# C#
MIT License GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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Entity Framework

Posts with mentions or reviews of Entity Framework. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-16.

NHibernate

Posts with mentions or reviews of NHibernate. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Entity Framework and NHibernate you can also consider the following projects:

LINQ to DB - Linq to database provider.

Dapper - Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net [Moved to: https://github.com/DapperLib/Dapper]

FluentMigrator - Fluent migrations framework for .NET

Entity Framework 6 - This is the codebase for Entity Framework 6 (previously maintained at https://entityframework.codeplex.com). Entity Framework Core is maintained at https://github.com/dotnet/efcore.

PetaPoco - Official PetaPoco, A tiny ORM-ish thing for your POCO's

Fluent NHibernate - Fluent NHibernate!

ServiceStack.OrmLite - Fast, Simple, Typed ORM for .NET

NPoco - Simple microORM that maps the results of a query onto a POCO object. Project based on Schotime's branch of PetaPoco

TypeORM - ORM for TypeScript and JavaScript. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SAP Hana, WebSQL databases. Works in NodeJS, Browser, Ionic, Cordova and Electron platforms.