SqlKata Query Builder VS Norm.net

Compare SqlKata Query Builder vs Norm.net and see what are their differences.

SqlKata Query Builder

SQL query builder, written in c#, helps you build complex queries easily, supports SqlServer, MySql, PostgreSql, Oracle, Sqlite and Firebird (by sqlkata)

Norm.net

Norm.net is an innovative and high-performance Database Access for .NET Standard 2.1 and higher (by vb-consulting)
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SqlKata Query Builder Norm.net
5 11
2,992 176
1.3% 1.1%
3.0 8.3
27 days ago 24 days ago
C# C#
MIT License MIT License
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SqlKata Query Builder

Posts with mentions or reviews of SqlKata Query Builder. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-10.
  • EF Core or Dapper
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 10 Mar 2023
    SqlKata is your friend.
  • ASP.Net Core database modelling without using existing ORMs?
    4 projects | /r/dotnet | 26 Jan 2023
    Don't know if can be a good pick for the no-ORM requirement but I would take a look at SqlKata which is a nice query builder + execution engine, built on top of Dapper
  • Which ORM to study ?
    1 project | /r/csharp | 2 Dec 2021
    Not really an ORM. But I have been enjoying SqlKata recently. Works with Dapper but helps reduce SQL strings and makes things like pagination really easy. Also nice for dynamic filters.
  • Windyquery: A non-blocking Python PostgreSQL query builder
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 May 2021
    That is basically the description of an object mapper, with all the guarantees of an object mapper :). It seems if you actually use the query builder as such, no guarantees exist.

    I'm pretty picky regarding query builders and ORM's, to the extent of having written several of them over the years, in different languages (both dynamic and strong typed, unfortunately closed-source). I'm a strong advocate of schema-first design, and usually a query builder will allow you to design your queries explicitly, but having some internal behaviors (such as string concatenation, identifier quoting and automatic in-order separation of parameters and values to be bound) taken care of. As good examples of this, I'd mention golang's goqu (https://github.com/doug-martin/goqu) and - to some extent - C# SqlKata (https://sqlkata.com/). Following my frustrations with Python ORMs, I built my own toy project, sort-of-in-beta, called rickdb (https://github.com/oddbit-project/rick_db).

  • I don't want to learn your garbage query language
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Mar 2021
    Less about the exact syntax and more about the tool, for example: https://github.com/sqlkata/querybuilder. I just chose that since it was on top of a search but the idea is the same. Your code generates raw SQL, so it's 100% interchangeable with writing SQL yourself however the builder library deals with the syntax, proper ordering, quoting, full attribute names, etc. Some such libraries even let you define your schema in code to make your SQL generation type safe.

Norm.net

Posts with mentions or reviews of Norm.net. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SqlKata Query Builder and Norm.net you can also consider the following projects:

Yessql - A .NET document database working on any RDBMS

Dapper.FastCRUD - fast & light .NET ORM for strongly typed people

NReco LambdaParser - Runtime parser for string expressions (formulas, method calls). Builds dynamic LINQ expression tree and compiles it to lambda delegate.

Dapper.SimpleCRUD - Who wants to write basic read/insert/update/delete statements? SimpleCRUD provides simple CRUD helpers for Dapper.

MongoDB - The MongoDB Database

Knex - A query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB, SQL Server, SQLite3 and Oracle, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.

LiteDB - LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file

NORM - NORM - No ORM framework

Insight.Database - Fast, lightweight .NET micro-ORM

DapperQueryBuilder - Dapper Query Builder using String Interpolation and Fluent API

sqlx - general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

pdd-demo - PostgreSQL Driven Development Demo Web Application With PgRoutiner, .NET and Svelte