Anatomy of the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Summary: ADO.NET Entity Framework raises abstraction from relational data to a conceptual entity model, reducing application–database impedance. It outlines architecture, mapping, and technologies enabling integrated data access across tiers/SOA in programming environments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3972
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 7.9732153e-05
Overall Rank: 2,908 | 80.05%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247580

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Authors

1. Atul Adya (Microsoft)
2. José A. Blakeley (Microsoft)
3. Sergey Melnik (Microsoft)
4. S. Muralidhar (Microsoft)
5. the ADO.NET Team (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{adya_sigmod07,
        title = {{Anatomy of the ADO.NET Entity Framework}},
        author = {Adya, Atul and Blakeley, José A. and Melnik, Sergey and Muralidhar, S. and Team, the ADO.NET},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247580},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247580},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
762	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014231163
2,464	Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases	2007	SIGMOD	8.5480977e-05
3,687	MaaT: Effective and scalable coordination of distributed transactions in the cloud	2014	VLDB	7.2019738e-05
4,847	Avalanche-Safe LINQ Compilation	2010	VLDB	6.4805473e-05
7,323	Object/Relational Mapping 2008: Hibernate and the Entity Data Model (EDM)	2008	SIGMOD	5.6445692e-05
7,593	Query Containment in Entity SQL (Extended Abstract)	2013	SIGMOD	5.5893275e-05
8,327	Full-Fidelity Flexible Object-Oriented XML Access	2009	VLDB	5.4536664e-05
9,663	ADO.NET Entity Framework: Raising the Level of Abstraction in Data Programming	2007	SIGMOD	5.2407566e-05
12,251	Incremental Mapping Compilation in an Object-to-Relational Mapping System	2013	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,560	.NET Database Programmability and Extensibility in Microsoft SQL Server	2008	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,585	Language-Integrated Querying of XML Data in SQL Server	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,643	The Microsoft Data Platform	2007	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
39	Efficiently Updating Materialized Views	1986	SIGMOD	0.00047309646
292	LINQ: Reconciling Objects, Relations and XML in the .NET Framework	2006	SIGMOD	0.00022259549
1,868	Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil	1996	VLDB	9.589955e-05
2,464	Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases	2007	SIGMOD	8.5480977e-05
2,645	Updating Relational Databases through Object-Based Views	1991	SIGMOD	8.303766e-05
3,390	Relational Lenses: A Language for Updatable Views	2006	PODS	7.4518363e-05
4,293	Data Delivery in a Service-Oriented World: The BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform	2006	SIGMOD	6.7784095e-05
4,399	Bringing Object-Relational Technology to The Mainstream	1999	SIGMOD	6.7241272e-05
4,479	Persistence Software: Bridging Object-Oriented Programming and Relational Databases	1993	SIGMOD	6.6765395e-05
6,779	O-O, What Have They Done to DB2?	1999	VLDB	5.7772333e-05
9,663	ADO.NET Entity Framework: Raising the Level of Abstraction in Data Programming	2007	SIGMOD	5.2407566e-05

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