[mattmanser]

Last time I tried MySQL with the EF the performance was terrible, the EF was outputting a load of nested tables that were fine with SQL Server, but absolutely abysmal performance with MySQL. This was a while ago.

Have you used this personally, and do you have any scale? As there's 'supported' and there's good.

[iamnothere]

EF is overkill for most things, like most heavyweight ORMs. Good for "line of business" apps, probably not great for most other applications. Dapper is much more performant.