Newsletter :: April 2010

• BookStore - digital book management with db4o: BookStore is a digital book management system, written in C# and targeting the .NET Framework 2.0. It uses db4o for the storing and querying of books.
• Jease CMS migrated to ZK5 (v0.6): Jease is successfully migrated to ZK5. ZK is the fantastic web-framework which powers the Ajax-driven CMF/CMS-layer for Jease.
• Interesting C# db4o based projects by James Hicks: James contributes a wrapper around db4o written in C# that makes it easy to open and manage client connections, an event sourcing framework that can store events and snapshots in db4o and a framework that uses db4o to store NServiceBus subscriptions and sagas instead of a RDBMS.
• First toe in the water (.NET db4o) by Andrew Rea: Andrew decided to choose db4o over Mongo for its initial tests with NoSQL databases. In his blog post he shows us how to use db4o with StructureMap, how db4o works fine with multithreading and a basic performance test.
• IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Contest: Vote for db4o!: Please vote so we can have a db4o plugin for IntelliJ IDEA!!
• DataWander: Oracle 10g -> db4o Data Migration: Marcin Stachniuk just published the first version of DataWander. The application migrates data from an Oracle relational database to db4o.
• db4o continues with "Cash for Cases" program: We're still looking for new and interesting case studies of applications that took a leap forward thanks to the db4o technology. But now you have the chance to be rewarded for your submission!

Versant - News from the Base Camp
from Versant Website

• Data From Outer Space - Launched by an Ariane 5 rocket on 14 May 2009, the ESA "Herschel" telescope is delivering image and spectroscopic data from outer space, and the astrophysical world is raving about it. Telemetry data and information on steering and calibrating scientific on-board instruments is managed in an object database from Versant.

Kudos of the Month
from the db4o Kudos Blog

"After a little playing around with db4o, it's really cool. Created a project in Windows VS2008, moved dll's & exe to Linux. Ran perfect."
— John Boker

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The db4objects team.

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