- Comparison: EF Core vs Entity Framework Extensions
- Operation: Bulk Synchronize
- EF Version: EF Core 9.x
- Benchmarks executed with BenchmarkDotNet (25 iterations, 1 warmup).
- Results may vary depending on hardware, configuration, and dataset size.
- Connection strings are defined in
appsettings.json. - EF Core does not provide a native Bulk Synchronize method, so only EF Extensions is shown.
Description:
This chart shows Bulk Synchronize benchmarks on SQL Server.
Entity Framework Extensions enables full synchronization between datasets and tables, a feature not available in EF Core.
Description:
This chart shows Bulk Synchronize benchmarks on PostgreSQL.
Entity Framework Extensions performs efficient synchronization, which EF Core does not support natively.
Description:
This chart shows Bulk Synchronize benchmarks on MySQL.
Entity Framework Extensions allows table synchronization scenarios that EF Core cannot handle directly.
Description:
This chart shows Bulk Synchronize benchmarks on MariaDB.
Entity Framework Extensions introduces advanced synchronization functionality not included in EF Core.
Description:
This chart shows Bulk Synchronize benchmarks on Oracle.
Entity Framework Extensions enables merge-style synchronization, a feature EF Core lacks.
Description:
This chart shows Bulk Synchronize benchmarks on SQLite.
Entity Framework Extensions makes it possible to perform efficient synchronization in SQLite, which EF Core cannot do natively.
Across all providers, Bulk Synchronize is an exclusive feature of Entity Framework Extensions:
- Performance: EF Extensions efficiently synchronizes large datasets with database tables, combining insert, update, and delete operations in a single step.
- Memory Usage: Synchronization is optimized to minimize allocations, keeping resource usage reasonable even on large datasets.
- Features: Since EF Core has no equivalent, EF Extensions provides unique functionality essential for scenarios requiring data reconciliation.
For applications where data synchronization is critical, EF Extensions is the only option, delivering high performance and scalability across all major database providers.