aspnet/EntityFramework

Features

• Object-Relational Mapping - Provides a full object-relational mapping system to translate application objects into database tables and rows.
• Database Schema Migrations - Tracks database structure changes via timestamped code files that apply incremental updates to the physical schema.
• Expression-Based Data Querying - Retrieves records from a database using high-level query expressions that convert automatically into optimized commands.
• LINQ Expression Translators - Provides a recursive visitor pattern to translate high-level LINQ expressions into optimized database-specific SQL commands.
• Object-Relational Mappers - Functions as a .NET object-relational mapper that simplifies database interactions by mapping data to objects.
• Object Mappings - Maps application classes to database tables using metadata derived from attributes or fluent configurations.
• Database Provider Plugins - Supports multi-backend database integration through a plugin system to ensure compatibility across different storage engines.
• Identity Maps - Implements an identity map to ensure each database record is represented by a single object instance per session.
• Pluggable Database Providers - Connects a single application to various storage engines through a plugin system to ensure provider compatibility.
• State Change Tracking - Monitors entity state by comparing current object values against cached original snapshots to determine necessary database updates.
• Provider Abstractions - Employs a provider-based abstraction to translate generic operations into dialect-specific commands for different storage engines.
• Object Relational Mapping - Standard data access framework with LINQ and POCO support.

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