Well, it's not all hugs and puppies, as BrightstarDB failed my very first test to use it in a real application. Its Entity Framework like layer does not support Guid properties. This is utterly inconceivable and unexpected, and it renders the library completely useless to me. I have posted into their forum suggesting that adding unconditional support for Guids must be of the highest priority -- *Greg K*
On 31 October 2014 18:36, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > > > On 30 October 2014 19:19, <osjasonrobe...@gmail.com> 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* > > >
