ADO.NET Entity Framework support for Oracle and more

Users of the ADO.NET Entity Framework can now access Oracle data sources and experience these key benefits:

Benefits

Features

Superior ADO.NET Entity Framework performance
  • Best-in-class development-time and runtime performance and scalability – blows away the competition with the best throughput while using minimal CPU and memory resources
  • Fully tunable enterprise performance architecture – includes support for key features such as statement caching and connection pooling
  • Integrated performance wizards in Visual Studio – now fully functional with the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Quickly develop robust enterprise applications using LINQ, Entity SQL, and ADO.NET Data Services
  • Leverage the full functionality of the ADO.NET Entity Framework no matter what application development approach you choose
  • Application Context Awareness detects and reconfigures the ADO.NET provider to ensure optimal ADO.NET Entity Framework performance
  • Support for EDM portability across data sources, (including SQL Server) with flexible model support

Boost ADO.NET Entity Framework application enterprise readiness
  • Offers standard ADO.NET Entity Framework EDM context extensions
  • Log SQL statements generated by the ADO.NET Entity Framework for database optimization and tuning
  • 100% provider-implemented connection failover and load balancing with no code changes
  • Leverage security features such as Kerberos and SSL within the ADO.NET Entity Framework
  • Monitor your ADO.NET Entity Framework applications in production with features such as connection statistics and perfmon counters
  • Supports local (lightweight) and XA distributed transactions within ADO.NET Entity Framework

No database client software required – ever!
  • DataDirect providers support all features with the industry’s only 100% managed code architecture that completely eliminates the need for database client libraries such as Oracle OCI
  • With an architecturally sound model, DataDirect providers dramatically improve the potential for successful deployment of the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Secure end-to-end application data access
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