Entity Framework Core Cookbook - Second Edition

Using other databases

Entity Framework, being a modern, modular and extensible data access tool, supports several datastores. In fact, starting with Core 1.0, it even has built-in support for non-relational databases. It is expected that Microsoft and third parties will start making non-relational providers available very soon. In the meantime, we already have support for a number of relational databases:

Database	Provider
Microsoft SQL Server	Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer
SQLite	Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SQLite
PostgreSQL	Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL
In Memory	Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.InMemory
MySQL	Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql

Note

These are just some of the providers that are available for ...