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What is the difference between Entity framework and NHibernate?
Entity framework used code-based (fluent) configuration or attribute-based (fluent) mapping. NHibernate uses XML and Fluent configuration and mapping. NHibernate Attributes is used to provide attribute mapping. NHibernate provides custom conventions and EF doesn’t provide them.
Is NHibernate better than Entity framework?
Entity Framework Core uses fluent (code-based) configuration and fluent or attribute-based mappings. Custom conventions are very powerful in NHibernate, EF Core still doesn’t have them, and this is something that NHibernate is better at, right now. Both of them need mappings, in any form.
Why use NHibernate instead of Entity framework?
nHibernate supports all types of databases but Entity framework need additional connectors to support databases other than MSSQL. nHibernate can be extended in terms of data loading, SQL generation, custom column types, custom collections etc but entity framework has limited extension points.
Which is better Entity Framework Core or NHibernate?
NHibernate and Entity Framework Core can be categorized as “Object Relational Mapper (ORM)” tools. NHibernate and Entity Framework Core are both open source tools. Entity Framework Core with 8.01K GitHub stars and 2.05K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than NHibernate with 1.65K GitHub stars and 826 GitHub forks.
Is the Entity Framework based on Hibernate ORM?
Architecturally, NHibernate is based on Java’s Hibernate ORM. Ricardo writes, In NHibernate, there is a separation between the Unit of Work and the configuration and model instances.
What kind of platform does NHibernate run on?
NHibernate now supports .NET 4 and higher running on Windows or platforms where Mono is available and as of version 5.1 (released a couple days ago) it also supports .NET Core. There are no plans to have it support data sources other than relational databases. EF Core runs on .NET Core, and therefore on any platform that supports it.
How are NHibernate futures used in SQL Server?
NHibernate has futures, which means that multiple queries can be queued, executed on the database, and retrieved at the same time, for databases that support it (SQL Server, Oracle). Also, depending on the primary key generation strategy, one can also batch insert multiple records at the same time.