Using other databases

Entity Framework, being a modern, modular and extensible data access tool, supports several datastores. In fact, starting with Core 1.0, it even has built-in support for non-relational databases. It is expected that Microsoft and third parties will start making non-relational providers available very soon. In the meantime, we already have support for a number of relational databases:

Database	Provider
Microsoft SQL Server	Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer
SQLite	Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SQLite
PostgreSQL	Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL
In Memory	Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.InMemory
MySQL	Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql

Note

These are just some of the providers that are available for free–and also open source–but there are others commercially available, of course. Other providers, such as EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServerCompact40 by Erik Jensen (https://github.com/ErikEJ) or EntityFramework.IBMDataServer by IBM, do not support .NET...