title: Latest Dapper VS Entity Framework 6 performance considerations
body: <p>There are a few performance comparisons between Dapper (which seems to be the fastest, most popular "micro ORM tool").
  Now it's September 2014 and we have Entity Framework 6 (not 5, or 4) and Dapper is still around.</p>
  
  <p>We will begin developing a huge database n-tier application (database has 700 tables). And some of the queries that need to be run are quite time-sensitive.</p>
  
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  <li>Does anyone have any updates on performance regarding EF 6.1.x? This concerns general queries made within a DbContext.</li>
  <li>I suppose I cannot use nicely formatted LINQ queries with Dapper. Do you have experience with that? Is it worth losing LINQ for the additional speed?</li>
  <li>IS Dapper still under active, constant development? GitHub tells me yes, but as with Subsonic, that can change rather quickly.</li>
  <li>Is it feasable/doable to mix Dapper and EF? Dapper when we need the speed, otherwise EF.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Thank you!</p>