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What is the overhead of Castle Active Record?

What is the overhead of using Castle Active Record over using nHibernate directly in terms of performance? Is it significant or it does not matter?

Solution

  • It doesn't matter. ActiveRecord is just a thin convenience wrapper over NHibernate's mapping, querying and session management (and recently some other things like in-memory testing and NHibernate.Search integration). It does not add any extra database queries or anything like that.