Lightspeed vs NHibernate

Question

What is the experience with LightSpeed? The comparison provided by Mindscape doesn\'t say too much about NHibernate. Lightspeed seems flexible, but I don\'t see much about per

Answer 1

I recently took a quick look at both. What impressed me with Lightspeed is:

• Their tools which work very well (best VS designers I've ever used, I think).
• Very fast responses. They answered questions and added features.

What was a showstopper for me was that they heavily rely on conventions, and there doesn't seem to be overrides in most cases. So my options when it comes to deciding exactly how things get mapped were not as good as I wanted. Supposedly Lightspeed 3 will address this to allow you to do more customization.

I stayed away from NHibernate because of all the XML, but then found Fluent NHibernate and it looks like it'll work out pretty well. There's no designer support, although some might say that's by design (focus on your objects). NHibernate also seems to be the most used ORM for .NET so it's a "safe" bet in that sense. So far it's been able to map most of what I can come up with.

At any rate, I didn't get very far with Lightspeed because of the customization limitations. If I was starting a fresh project that could conform to their conventions, it might be a different story. The company is so responsive, I would really like to use one of their products :).