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Feb 23rd, 2015, 02:31 PM
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What is the best portable / file based database to use within a C# .NET project
I know that PostgreSQL is great. But I am in need of a filebased database that should be used within a C# program I am building. I have heard about SQLite and Firebird, but I have no clue which system is best. Thanks.
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Feb 23rd, 2015, 03:09 PM
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Re: What is the best portable / file based database to use within a C# .NET project
well "best" is relative... there's also SQLCE (SQL Server Compact Edition) ... but it all depends on what your needs really are. There's going to be some amount of feature loss with portable formats.
the "best" one is the one that best fits your needs. How simple does the DB need to be? How complex? You can also go with an Access database. By portable, do you mean throw it on the thumb drive and take it with you? Or are you looking for cross-platform portability?
-tg
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Feb 23rd, 2015, 03:36 PM
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Re: What is the best portable / file based database to use within a C# .NET project
Originally Posted by techgnome
well "best" is relative... there's also SQLCE (SQL Server Compact Edition) ... but it all depends on what your needs really are. There's going to be some amount of feature loss with portable formats.
the "best" one is the one that best fits your needs. How simple does the DB need to be? How complex? You can also go with an Access database. By portable, do you mean throw it on the thumb drive and take it with you? Or are you looking for cross-platform portability?
-tg
Thanks techgnome for the valuable information. Actually, my program should run only under Windows. By portable I mean file based. Thanks.
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Feb 23rd, 2015, 03:52 PM
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Re: What is the best portable / file based database to use within a C# .NET project
then it's just a matter of laying out what your NEEDS are, and seeing which one matches the best.
-tg
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Mar 3rd, 2015, 04:45 PM
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Re: What is the best portable / file based database to use within a C# .NET project
This is a very opinion based question, as tg pointed out.
My opinion is to use SqlCe, but that's just my opinion and yours may differ.
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Mar 5th, 2015, 02:24 PM
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Re: What is the best portable / file based database to use within a C# .NET project
I;ve had great pleasure from sqlite, it even runs on Linux + Mono
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