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ServiceStack.OrmLite
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ServiceStack.OrmLite

Fast, Simple, Typed ORM for .NET

5Distinct people
10Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.5KGitHub stars
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Fast, Simple, Typed ORM for .NET

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-07-19 19:16:14 UTC to 2021-07-23 08:33:38 UTC.

01232012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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There is a middle ground. Everyone should know sql, but choose an ORM (micro-ORM) that doesn't have any abstractions, and gets data in and out. There are many solutions that offer you this without needing to write any SQL. https://github.com/CollaboratingPlatypus/PetaPoco https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite Micro ORMs is where it's at. You're asking for trouble if you choose something that does WAY more than it should, like Entity Framework.
In What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
ServiceStack's usage in OSS projects is covered in its License: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/blob/master/lic... i.e. It can be used as AGPL as-is, in addition it can be used in OSS projects under that license (to enable compatibility with the project) provided that the OSS Software remains OSS and provides complete source code for any additions. Although this AGPL/FLOSS Exception License only applies when you're creating your own distributions of ServiceStack from source code (i.e. very rare). This dual license option was added to allow OSS projects to use ServiceStack for free without paying for a commercial license, if that's not you, you can ignore this license option even exists. All ServiceStack packages on NuGet are released under the commercial license [1] of which only requires a developer license when it exceeds t
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he free usage quotas [2] which are only in ServiceStack commercial products namely the ServiceStack Web Service Framework, OrmLite [3], ServiceStack.Redis [4] and PocoDynamo [5]. All other ServiceStack Software inc. all client libraries, inc. Serialization and ServiceStack.Common (containing #Script) are unrestricted libraries which can be used for free without a commercial Developers license in both commercial/non-commercial projects. [1] https://servicestack.net/terms [2] https://servicestack.net/download#free-quotas [3] https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite [4] https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Redis [5] https://github.com/ServiceStack/PocoDynamo#pocodynamo
In SharpScript
I definitely sympathize with having to endure the perpetual rewrites of Microsoft Web and Web service frameworks. In contrast I'd like to offer our competing ServiceStack framework as an alternative (commercial) platform [1] which has been in active development since 2008 that in contrast to the ever changing MS frameworks offers a single integrated Web Services [2] and Web [3] solution that has maintained the same clean, stable high-level message-based API throughout its lifetime. It was created out of frustration in the WCF/WebForms era [4] where we were the first to offer an integrated IOC, impl-free/testable multi-provider logging, caching, virtual files and configuration providers, clean/extensible typed user sessions - all using high-performance components. The first to run on .NET Framework and Mono, the first to create high-perfor
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mance JSON and text serializers and fast typed ORM, which at the time they were developed were several times faster than anything MS offered [5]. All pre-dating Web API [6] and outlasting the continually changing fragmented MVC/Web API "framework in a framework" coupling as well as the rolling churn of abandoned OWIN/katana abstractions [7]. Instead we've maintained clean impl-free IRequest/IResponse interfaces which provides a lightweight abstraction over the underlying platforms concrete HTTP Request/Response abstractions where we're still the only framework where the same ServiceStack App can run on classic ASP.NET, self-hosting HttpListener (.NET Framework or Mono OSX/Linux), ASP.NET Core on .NET Core (Win/OSX/Linux) and ASP.NET Core on .NET Framework v4.7 [8]. As a result of our stable surface area we still have older v3 (BSD) Customers upgrading to our latest commercial version just so they can leverage their existing investments to run on ASP.NET Core which is relatively easy to port [9] where most of our .NET Live Demos [10] have been ported to run on .NET Core [11]. Unlike any of MS offerings, ServiceStack: - Has never abandoned any .NET library, our libraries are continually enhanced and maintained, not rewritten or discarded - The same Services implementation supports multiple formats out-of-the-box, can be called from multiple HTTP / MQ / SOAP endpoints, on multiple hosting options [12] - Provides native, end-to-end typed development experience for C#, TypeScript/JS, Java, Kotlin, Swift, F# and VB.NET [13] - Has no prejudice towards MS products, our libraries work equally well on all platforms/back-end providers, e.g. OrmLite [14] provides a high-level typed DB agnostic API across all major RDBMS's. Whilst SQL Server is our most popular dialect (courtesy of marketing in .NET), we personally prefer/use PostgreSQL and its a popular configuration to configure Unit tests to use SQLite for faster Integration tests. - Provides clean abstractions of multiple providers for AWS [15] and Azure [16] - Has its own flexible Auth Provider model [17] which hasn't had a schema change and never needed a "migration" whilst being continually updated to support new providers - Has an aversion to complexity, instead of blindly adopting over-engineered solutions we develop our own cleaner alternatives. Some examples of this include AutoQuery vs OData [18] Add ServiceStack Reference vs WCF Service Reference [19], Templates [20] vs Razor [21] - Offers a Simple and "pure Cloud App" solution for developing .NET Core Apps with built-in hot-reloading and without any compilation or builds [22] From 2013 we've adopted a sustainable dual licensing model (commercial for closed-source or OSS/Free for OSS projects) which has allowed ServiceStack to be actively supported and maintained and continually updated with new releases [23]. Anyway I'd like to offer ServiceStack a stable competing framework for .NET and .NET Core that's being developed from a different mindset/values which has evolved gracefully over the years and stands no risk of abandonment or rewrite with many of our Customers sharing a different experience [24] than if you've had to live through the churn of MS's multiple framework rewrites. [1] http://docs.servicestack.net/why-servicestack [2] https://github.com/ServiceStackApps/HelloMobile [3] http://razor.servicestack.net/ [4] https://www.slideshare.net/newmovie/what-istheservicestack-14819151 [5] http://mono.servicestack.net/benchmarks/ [6] http://mono.servicestack.net/mvc-powerpack/ [7] https://servicestack.uservoice.com/forums/176786-feature-requests/suggestions/4851… [8] http://docs.servicestack.net/releases/v5.0.0#servicestack-mobile-and-desktop-apps [9] http://docs.servicestack.net/netcore#exceptional-code-reuse [10] https://github.com/ServiceStackApps/LiveDemos [11] https://github.com/NetCoreApps/LiveDemos [12] http://docs.servicestack.net/why-servicestack#multiple-pluggable-formats [13] http://docs.servicestack.net/add-servicestack-reference [14] https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite [15] https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Aws [16] https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Azure [17] http://docs.servicestack.net/authentication-and-authorization [18] http://docs.servicestack.net/autoquery [19] http://docs.servicestack.net/add-servicestack-reference#advantages-over-wcf [20] http://templates.servicestack.net [21] http://docs.servicestack.net/why-not-razor [22] http://templates.servicestack.net/docs/web-apps [23] http://docs.servicestack.net/release-notes-history [24] https://servicestack.net/#testimonials-carousel
In Ask HN: What tech stack would you choose for a serious, long-term business app
Few more: * ServiceStack - full-featured Services Framework https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack * ServiceStack.OrmLite - Fast, Simple, Typed ORM for .NET https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite * BCrypt.Net - A .Net port of jBCrypt implemented in C# http://bcrypt.codeplex.com/ * Stripe.net - .net api for Stripe https://github.com/jaymedavis/stripe.net * TuesPechkin - .NET Wrapper for the wkhtmltopdf library (to generate PDFs) https://github.com/tuespetre/TuesPechkin
In Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier

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