ASP.NET MVC and ORM Selection

Question

We are getting ready to begin redevelopment of a large aging internal enterprise application. We have decided to use ASP.NET MVC, but under consideration is which Object Rel

Answer 1

Crazy talk answer: none.

This is not to say ORMs are not awesome pieces of technology when used right. But in 2011, they are quickly becoming the universal hammer where not all problems are nails. And there is so much going on in the modern ORMs that, especially for people not well versed in them, they can confuse things more than help things. Or, sometimes things are simple enough that straight SQL is a better alternative. No matter how good the ORM is, the abstraction will leak at some point.

The other side of things to look at is the whole NoSQL movement. The technology is still a bit new, but for new work it is a data access strategy one must consider as it takes so much cruft out of building your application.