Benefits of grain state persistence framework

[JaktensTid]

Hi, just out of a curiosity

What is the main point of state persistence framework (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/grains/grain-persistence/?pivots=orleans-3-x)? How is it different from custom entity framework implementation? What are the benefits?

[bradygaster]

EF is useful when you want more of an ORM, where you're mapping objects directly to RDBMS tables. State persistence is more for persisting the state of the grains, which may or may not be your domain objects for your app. You might use grain persistence to persist the state of a workflow, for example.

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