db4o Developer Community

February 2007 - Posts

• [Kudo] db4o: a powerful database to store news

  Our main goal is to provide a newsreader that is powerful, easy to extend and easy to use. We chose the Eclipse Rich Client Platform as framework and db4o as powerful database to store all the news. In combination with the well-known full-text search Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 4:46 AM by German Viscuso | 0 Comments

• [Kudo] A Good Deal From db4o

  The db4o micro commercial offering allows you to use db4o in software that runs on handheld devices at a unit cost as low as a a dollar . If you plan to ship tens of thousands of copies of your software, that is a pretty good price. The market for software Read More... Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 9:57 PM by German Viscuso | 0 Comments

• [Kudo] db4o is one of the greatests pieces of software out there for OLTP-only systems

  The current problem with ODBMS systems is just that basic business intelligence or even reporting is quite difficult with them. Anyway I think db4o is one of the greatests pieces of software out there for OLTP-only systems. http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=44161#22723 Read More... Posted Saturday, February 17, 2007 2:00 PM by German Viscuso | 0 Comments

• [Kudo] There is an alternative!

  I strongly believe that seperation between domain og model is best achieved by a data access layer designed for the specific application. Implementation of such a layer should be replaceable! Implementation of such a layer could be done using an ORM. Read More... Posted Saturday, February 17, 2007 1:51 PM by German Viscuso | 0 Comments

• [Kudo] Ease of deployment

  Something I really like about db4o is the "ease of deployment." Drop the db4o-jars to your project, define a suitable location for your database file and just start working... A very nice productivity factor comming along with db4o: It's so easy to work Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:20 AM by German Viscuso | 0 Comments

• [Kudo] Let’s Fire The DBAs!

  As I contemplate all of the tools out there, including Oracle’s Berkeley DB , I notice that everyone is bragging about unattended execution, or zero administration. Nobody loves the poor old DBA. My choice for an embedded database would be DB4O. DB40 Read More... Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 10:42 PM by German Viscuso | 0 Comments

• [Kudo] Il est peut-être temps de franchir le pas du SGBDO

  http://www.dotnetguru.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=874 DNG n'avait jamais eu l'occasion de mettre en lumière Db4o, c'est aujourd'hui chose faite. Ce projet OpenSource a pour objectif de fournir une base de données Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 5:50 AM by German Viscuso | 0 Comments

• [Kudo] A future where relational databases are arcane tools is conceivable

  http://www.gregwhitescarver.com/blog/2007/02/03/object-persistence/ I’ll be keeping my eye on things like db40 to see if workable object persistence ever makes its way to PHP land. A future where SQL and relational databases are arcane tools used primarily Read More... Posted Sunday, February 04, 2007 11:03 PM by Christof | 0 Comments