EF Core 10
Graph read cost
EF Core vs redb Pro: 54 tables and 31 Includes vs one class
The redb.core team compares loading the same business object — an Employee with addresses, contacts and dictionaries — as 54 tables and 31 Include chains in EF Core versus a single class in their own ORM. On a 100k-object data set EF Core reads one employee with 62 SQL queries in almost two seconds, while redb Pro finishes in 131 ms with nine queries. The write-up argues the gap comes from how many tables a graph spans, not raw engine speed.