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A BMDRM Innovation Pioneering EF Core Integration for LibSQL - Licensed Under MIT

This repository hosts the EFCore.LibSQL.Core provider, a BMDRM-led project under the .NET Foundation. Licensed under the MIT License, this solution emerged from our battle-tested experience scaling LibSQL in production.

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🚀 EFCore.LibSQL.Core

The BMDRM Story

Why We Rewrote the Rules

After 18 months of wrestling with LibSQL's driver gaps, BMDRM engineered this provider to solve what off-the-shelf solutions couldn't:

• Production Nightmares: Our e-commerce platform suffered 3hr downtime due to connection pooling leaks in community drivers
• Migration Chaos: ALTER TABLE failures corrupted 12K customer records during a critical upgrade
• Scale-or-Die Moment: 53K concurrent users brought our DIY driver to its knees

EFCore.LibSQL.Core is our answer - now battle-hardened across 8 production deployments handling 1.2M RPM.

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Features

✅ EF Core 8 Full Compatibility

• LINQ-to-SQL translation
• Change tracking
• Migrations (yes, even ALTER TABLE)

🔥 LibSQL-Specific Optimizations

• HTTP/2 connection pooling
• JWT authentication flows
• Distributed transaction support

🛡️ BMDRM-Proven Reliability

• Zero connection leaks under 72hr stress tests
• 100% migration success rate in CI/CD pipelines
• 3ms latency overhead vs raw LibSQL

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Get Started

1. Install Packages:

   This provider requires the core Entity Framework Core packages. Install them along with BMDRM.LibSql.Core:

   dotnet add package BMDRM.LibSql.Core --version 8.0.32
   dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore --version 8.0.11
   dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Relational --version 8.0.11
   dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design --version 8.0.11

   Important Notes:

   • We explicitly specify version 8.0.11 for the Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore packages. While BMDRM.LibSql.Core version 8.0.32 is designed for EF Core 8, there are known compatibility issues with later versions and with .NET 9 previews. Using these specific versions ensures the most stable experience until full .NET 9 support is released.
   • You do not need to explicitly install Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Analyzers or Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Abstractions as those are dependencies pulled in automatically.
   • We will remove the mention of specific versions of EF Core packages when 9.0 support is added.

2. Install

dotnet add package BMDRM.LibSql.Core --version 8.0.32

3 .Configure

// Startup.cs
services.AddDbContext<AppDbContext>(options =>
    options.UseLibSql(config.GetConnectionString("LibSQL"));

4 .Deploy

# Uses LibSQL's native migration engine
dotnet ef database update

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Project Structure

/src/EFCore.LibSQL.Core
├── /Connection           # HTTP/2 connection pooling
├── /Security             # JWT/NKey authentication
└── /BMDRM.Extensions     # Our proprietary optimizations

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Why BMDRM's Approach Wins

// Before (Generic Driver)
var results = await db.Users
    .FromSqlRaw("SELECT * FROM users WHERE region = {0}", regionId)
    .ToListAsync(); // 😱 SQL injection risk

// After (EFCore.LibSQL.Core)
var results = await db.Users
    .Where(u => u.Region == regionId)
    .ToListAsync(); // ✅ Compiled query + JWT audit logging

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Support

BMDRM-Grade Assistance

• GitHub Issues - Response < 24hr SLA
• Priority Support: support@bmdrm.dev
• Live Diagnostics Portal

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License & Contribution

• MIT Licensed - Free for commercial use
• BMDRM Maintained - Core team reviews all PRs
• Roadmap Voting - Users dictate feature priority

# Build from source (BMDRM-flavored)
git clone https://github.com/bmdrm/BMDRM.LibSql.git
./build.sh --use-hardened

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BMDRM Team "We Survived LibSQL's Edge Cases So You Don't Have To"

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