Getting Started - negue/LiteDB GitHub Wiki
LiteDB is a simple, fast and lightweight embedded .NET document database. LiteDB was inspired by the MongoDB database and its API is very similar to MongoDB's official .NET API.
LiteDB is a serverless database, so there is no installation. Just copy LiteDB.dll into your Bin folder and add it as Reference. Or, if you prefer, you can install via NuGet: Install-Package LiteDB. If you are running in a web environment, make sure that your IIS user has write permission to the data folder.
A quick example to store and search for documents:
// Create your POCO class entity
public class Customer
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string[] Phones { get; set; }
public bool IsActive { get; set; }
}
// Open database (or create if doesn't exist)
using(var db = new LiteDatabase(@"C:\Temp\MyData.db"))
{
// Get a collection (or create, if doesn't exist)
var col = db.GetCollection<Customer>("customers");
// Create your new customer instance
var customer = new Customer
{
Name = "John Doe",
Phones = new string[] { "8000-0000", "9000-0000" },
IsActive = true
};
// Insert new customer document (Id will be auto-incremented)
col.Insert(customer);
// Update a document inside a collection
customer.Name = "Joana Doe";
col.Update(customer);
// Index document using document Name property
col.EnsureIndex(x => x.Name);
// Use LINQ to query documents
var results = col.Find(x => x.Name.StartsWith("Jo"));
}Need to store files? No problem: use FileStorage.
// Upload a file from file system to database
db.FileStorage.Upload("my-photo-id", @"C:\Temp\picture-01.jpg");
// And download later
db.FileStorage.Download("my-photo-id", @"C:\Temp\copy-of-picture-01.jpg");