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ActiveRecord vs. Ecto Part Two

Elvio Vicosa on October 09, 2018

This is the second part of the "ActiveRecord vs. Ecto" series, in which Batman and Batgirl fight over querying databases and we compare apples and ...
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Jason Steinhauser

I definitely like the comparison! I haven't used ActiveRecord/RoR before, but I'm relatively familiar with Phoenix/Elixir. This will help immensely if I ever have to look at any Ruby. One thing that I'm probably reading too much into is the apparent performance difference that seems apparent between ActiveRecord and Ecto. Are these legitimate times off the same computer? If so, Ecto's numbers are impressive, but ActiveRecord's are freaking awesome.