My db4o Wishlist

by Christoph Menge in .NET, Software, db4o

After finding that db4o did not screw up in our projects, I dug a bit through their issue tracker, which is a very important resource you should definitely check out if you’re working with db4o!
Just to get that straight: I’m an avid db4o user and really love it. These issues are not critical and they [...]

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db4o Performance Pitfalls

by Christoph Menge in Software, db4o

This is just a quick note, but I just gotta share this right now.
It’s actually in the manual so this is not exactly a secret, but I managed to overlook it so perhaps I’m not the only one…
In our specific scenario, db4o was about 3 times slower than MSSQL via Linq to SQL in [...]

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A Simple Standalone Server for db4o as Windows Service

by Christoph Menge in Software, db4o

Download: db4oSimpleServer

Lately, I have fiddled around with Versant’s excellent dual-license object database db4o a little and I think object databases are very neat. In fact, I read a few pages in PoEAA [Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture] today, and here and there Fowler writes how cool object databases are. The Fowler knows!
Well, anyhow when you [...]

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