The most comprehensive benchmarks to track are the TechEmpower benchmarks as they are open source so you can see what each framework is doing: https://github.co

The most comprehensive benchmarks to track are the TechEmpower benchmarks as they are open source so you can see what each framework is doing: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/master/frameworks https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/mast... The benchmarks model simple, but real world scenarios. It has breakdowns by EF, Dapper (the StackOverflow "micro-ORM"), MySQL, PG, and raw ADO.NET. It should be noted that EF and EF Core are not the same thing; EF Core is more or less a full rewrite: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/efcore-and-ef6/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/efcore-and-ef6/ Recent benchmarks have EF Core catching up to Dapper. You can read more about Microsoft's focus on performance for EF Core here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-entity-framework-core-6-0-preview-4-performance-edition/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-entity-fram...