Take advantage of migrations in EF Core to manage database schema changes over time and keep them in sync with the data models of your ASP.NET Core applications.

Take advantage of query types in EF Core to query types that don’t have keys and to map to tables and views that lack an identity column.

In June 2022, EF Core 6 reaches parity with Dapper, both achieving 73% of raw ADO.NET performance. EF Core 7 claims to bring similar improvements when saving to the database.