Ed at Work - VistaDB 2.1 Database for .NET

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

I’ve often thought that it would be nice to have an easily deployed database engine for a client-based application, but most database engines are difficult to deploy, have a large footprint, and use many files for a single database. One database engine that always looked like it had promise was VistaDB, so I couldn’t pass up this offer to get a free copy! If you’re interested, read the advertising blurb below…

VistaDB 2.1 database for .NET has been released
This 2.1 update includes over 60 improvements, including new support for .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio .NET 2005. VistaDB is a small-footprint, embedded SQL database alternative to Jet/Access, MSDE and SQL Server Express 2005 that enables developers to build .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 applications. Features SQL-92 support, small 500KB embedded footprint, free 2-User VistaDB Server for remote TCP/IP data access, royalty free distribution for both embedded and server, Copy 'n Go! deployment, managed ADO.NET Provider, data management and data migration tools. Free trial is available for download.

11/1/2005 12:00:09 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) | Comments [1] | Tools

11/3/2005 10:23:33 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

There's also SQLite (http://www.sqlite.org/) which is free, and has a .NET wrapper for it called SQLite.NET (http://sourceforge.net/projects/adodotnetsqlite). Not only that, but Wilson's O/R mapper (http://www.ormapper.net) even works with it! Jacob and I actually wrote a little proof-of-concept app that demonstrates all 3 working together nicely.

Alex

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