Subsonic Vs NHibernate

Question

What is the concensus on when to use one of these tools adversed to the other? I find Subsonic very useful in terms of getting things done quickly, but on large projects it

Answer 1

Consider your team and project size when considering ActiveRecord.

In my experience, ActiveRecord is an abstraction on top of NHibernate that starts leaking like a sieve when trying more complicated scenarios.

If you have a moderately to heavily complicated or non-straightforward schema, stick with NHibernate. You can slice and dice it to near perfection.

The other place you might get into trouble is when you need a moderately complicated query. ActiveRecord hides a lot of NHibernate's implementation... but you'll need it for a complicated query, which will become very difficult if you're completely unfamiliar with HQL. Be careful team members don't just hack away at the edges instead of learning NHibernate and HQL.