Object To Relational Mapping

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  14 years ago

  by GerryHansan

  Gerry Hansan

  , United Arab Emirates

  Joined 14 years ago

  There are plenty of Object to relational mapping tools available in the market, but we don't know the strengths and weaknesses of each. Let’s share our experiences with O/R mapping products to the others.

  Please comment which of the following products you’ve used and what was the outcome. Feel free to add more tools to the list.

  NPersist

  TierDeveloper

  EntityBroker

  DeKlarit

  Lattice.DataMapper

  LLBGen Pro

  XPO eXpress Persistent Objects

  Nolics.net O/R mapper

  Wilson ORMapper

  NHibernate

  MyGeneration
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  14 years ago

  by MikePhil

  Mike Phil

  , American Samoa

  Joined 14 years ago

  I have used TierDeveloper personally and I’m very much satisfied with the product. Here are some of the strengths of TierDeveloper(in my opinion)

   

  Strenghts
  Easy to use. Learning curve is around 1 hour.
  Customization of the generated code is possible through TemplateIDE tool provided with it.
  Advanced features like synchronization with the database, automatic creation of relationships, inheritance support, object binding support etc.
  Very responsive support staff
  Support for large number of databases
  
  
  
  
  

  Generates fully working database applications for real-life use
  
  
  
  

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  14 years ago

  by SteveAustin

  Steve Austin

  , United Kingdom

  Joined 14 years ago

  With the passage of time everything changes. Best practices for coding are also rapidly changing. Microsoft regularly anounces new tools, technologies and concepts that more oftenly compete/contradict with the existing ones. So an ORM for .NET must meet the changing technology and concepts prevailing in the .NET world.

   

  I think TierDeveloper is a better ORM product for .NET code generation. Alachisoft continuously announces newer patch for TierDeveloper that incorporate new .NET concepts and techs. Recently TierDeveloper added support for Partial Classes in .NET 2.0. So always go for an ORM product that continuously adapts itself according to the technology.

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