From what I’ve seen so far, I expect the first question of the audience would be why a prominent developer tools vendor like Telerik supports such an initiative? Well we find it a nice start of a community effort to put some real numbers behind the claims of all participants in this growing domain. It was about time. There is not a single resource that gives a glance over the products, the vendors behind them, and their real virtues. The ORM domain is now a ‘first class’ citizen in the .NET space and we all owe that to the Entity Framework, and even more so to Linq To Sql. So from my perspective the domain is getting mature (in the .NET space) , the number of the products that provide O/R mapping is increasing, more and more features are brought to life… So why not measure all key aspects of those products (If I was to develop such a product, I would definitely go for LINQ and performance first, you know)? I think definitely this is the next step. And not because of a marketing reasons, but just because if there are no real figures behind the different tests, it looks like if we are a bunch of clairvoyants claiming we see the future… you know what I ‘am talking about. All in all, I believe all interested should participate and show openly their results. We are keen to have our product benchmarked against the others. And with the help of all you guys, we can make the testing framework better, more transparent, and more fair so that we are comparing apples to apples. We value what the guys from ORMBattle.net did so far, and we hope that we at least will use this comparison toolkit to the benefit of our customers - to improve the product and provide more ‘green’ slots in the comparison matrix :)
P.S. I hope this post will not spur political comments. Let’s focus on constructive actions and get to work with the comparison.
Dimitar Kapitanov,
Product manager for Telerik OpenAccess ORM product line.
