Entity Framework isn't really similar to any of the things I listed. I tried to only include components you might use as part of a larger system, rather than te

Entity Framework isn't really similar to any of the things I listed. I tried to only include components you might use as part of a larger system, rather than technology stack choices. Dapper distills the converting database rows to objects. It's a micro ORM, which means it doesn't try to abstract SQL like a monolithic ORM (NHibernate, EntityFramework) would do. Example: public TagModel GetTag(long id) { using (var conn = m_connector.GetConnection()) { return conn.Query<TagModel>("SELECT TOP 1 * FROM Tags WHERE Id = @Id", new { Id = id }).FirstOrDefault(); } }