On 30 October 2014 19:19, <[email protected]> wrote: > BrightstarDB - http://brightstardb.com/ may be of interest… >
After fiddling with this for half an hour I'm starting to think this product is a work of art! It's pleasing to discover a managed product that is well thought-out, elegantly layered, (quite) well documented, well tooled, uncluttered, and free. I had the samples working in minutes without a glitch, and most importantly they worked in a really familiar style. You can work with two lower levels of API or at the higher "entity" level. They have VS templates to add interfaces from which a T4 template will generate EF-like entities. In fact they've mimicked EF with amazing fidelity, even relationship collections. It's weird to find a NoSql database that supports "joins". I don't know yet how much of EF's IQueryable behaviour they've reproduced. They foolishly seem to have created their own query language called SPARQL. I'm going to investigate BrightstarDB in much more detail and I'll report any startling news. Anyone else here using it? *Greg K*
