There are several Micro ORMs for .NET: http://www.servicestack.net/benchmarks/#dapper-benchmarks http://www.servicestack.net/benchmarks/#dapper-benchmarks That

There are several Micro ORMs for .NET: http://www.servicestack.net/benchmarks/#dapper-benchmarks http://www.servicestack.net/benchmarks/#dapper-benchmarks That don't try to handle hidden-magic-state and lets you easily access via Raw SQL if you need to do complex queries. Many don't try to abstract anything and are simply extension methods over the underlying IDbConnection (so you never lose any flexibility), i.e. they simply exist to remove the tedium boilerplate of mapping RDBMS results back into POCOs.