Comments on: VistaDB or Sqlite

By: Mago Sams

Mago Sams — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:35:00 +0000

Sqlite rocks. VistaDB is very very slow. u can test it yr self.

By: James Avery

James Avery — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:52:34 +0000

Actually I configured it to use SQL Server instead of VistaDB so I could have good backups and better performance.

By: charles

charles — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:48:52 +0000

btw, your blog is running on vistadb

GraffitiCMS uses it

By: Liron Levi

Liron Levi — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:08:27 +0000

I'm developing a client/server application using SQLite and so far speed/flexbility are great. Installation is also a snap.

BTW: if you want to migrate from SQL Server to SQLite, I've written a small utility in C# that can do this for you: www.codeproject.com/.../convsqlserverto

Good Luck

Liron

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By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:18:00 +0000

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By: Jon Galloway

Jon Galloway — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:45:00 +0000

James - I'd definitely advise an abstraction layer like NHibernate. I did some simple tests with SQLite, made great progress, and decided it would work for me. Then when I tried to update and read from the table on different threads it all fell apart.

I think SQLite is okay for very simple database needs where small size is important.

Firebird is better if you need a solid database and you need a free product (open source project, etc.).

VistaDB seems like the best solution as long as you don't mind paying for it.

I tested some others - SharpHSQL seemed promising, but wasn't really stable when I last tested.

But whatever you do, go with an abstraction layer. I'm restarting an old project, and I plan to use NHibernate on top of Firebird, then switch to SQL Mobile when it's released.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:34:00 +0000

James, you should take a look at this article….
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/04/12/442615.aspx

By: Rajeev Gopal

Rajeev Gopal — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:28:00 +0000

Have you considered MySQL? I havent used it, but I hear good things about it…

By: Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:57:00 +0000

(I am biased toward SQLite, so read the following with that in mind)
It really depends on what you want out of the database engine and what development environment you’re using. SQLite is smaller than VistaDb, but VistaDb has stored procs. SQLite’s ADO.NET 2.0 provider is far superior to VistaDb’s ADO.NET providers, though. VistaDb has very limited support for VS2005’s design-time environment, but SQLite’s support is pretty extensive. VistaDb also can’t be embedded on a smartdevice — no idea if that’s even important to you.

If your database is properly indexed, you can get pretty impressive speed with SQLite even with millions of rows in your tables. In some of the benchmark tests I ran a few months ago, VistaDB scored at the bottom consistently.
http://sqlite.phxsoftware.com/forums/622/ShowPost.aspx

The best thing about SQLite is that its public domain. No GPL, LPGL, no licensing restrictions whatsoever. You can dig into the engine and the ADO.NET 2.0 provider as far as you want to go.

Robert Simpson
http://sqlite.phxsoftware.com