Oracle ODP.net Managed vs Unmanaged Driver

Question

Are there any performance benchmarks between the managed and unmanaged Oracle ODP.Net drivers?

(i.e. is there any advantage to moving to the managed driver other tha

Answer 1

The easier deployment and bitness independence are really nice benefits, but you should rather evaluate your typical driver usage thoroughly. I faced almost 50% performance handicap when using the new managed driver in 64bit processes. Other people are reporting memory leaks etc on Oracle forum: https://forums.oracle.com/community/developer/english/oracle_database/windows_and_.net/odp.net . It looks like it's kind of typical Oracle buggy product which needs some more months/years to settle back :/