Database Recipes

Examples of working with databases from boo.

For general information about learning to use relational databases in .NET and Mono, see the ADO.NET page here. There also is a page with links to tips about Database Design.

• Bamboo Prevalence — In Bamboo Prevalence, all the data is stored in RAM for must faster access.
• db4objects — db4objects (db4o) is a GPL-licensed native object database.
• Firebird Database — Under Construction
• Gentle.NET ORM — Gentle.NET lets you work with relational databases without using SQL directly.
• NHibernate — NHibernate is a port of the Java Hibernate object relational mapper (ORM).
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• SQLite Database — SQLite is a small database engine that has become very popular.

You can also store objects to a file using simple serialization (with or without using XML).