NPoco vs UkrGuru.Sql: When Streaming Beats...

When we talk about database performance in .NET, we often compare ORMs as if they were interchangeable. In practice, the API shape matters just as much as the implementation. In this post, I benchmark NPoco and UkrGuru.Sql using BenchmarkDotNet, focusing on a very common task: reading a large table from SQL Server. The interesting part is not which library wins, but why the numbers differ so much. TL;DR: Streaming rows with IAsyncEnumerable<T> is faster, allocates less, and scales better than lo