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in Why Astoria alignment is not that trivial Soumitra Sengupta outlines some of the challenges of aliging SSDS and Astoria:

• Astoria protocol and interaction model deals with only a single consistency domain.
• Multi-tenancy is a fundamental concept in SSDS while Astoria has no such concept at this point in time.
• Entities in SSDS do not require schema while default for Astoria is EDM schemas.

imho, not only is alignment non-trivial, it's not desirable.

SSDS needs to remain lightweight and flexible. EDM will kill that. SSDS does need some improvements to the query model. it *does* need improvements in it's support for other content-types (Atopm, RSS, JSON). but SSDS does not need to become another member of the Entity Framework system.