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LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file
https://github.com/mbdavid/LiteDB

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# LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file



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LiteDB is a small, fast and lightweight .NET NoSQL embedded database. 



- Serverless NoSQL Document Store

- Simple API, similar to MongoDB

- 100% C# code for .NET 4.5 / NETStandard 1.3/2.0 in a single DLL (less than 450kb)

- Thread-safe

- ACID with full transaction support

- Data recovery after write failure (WAL log file)

- Datafile encryption using DES (AES) cryptography

- Map your POCO classes to `BsonDocument` using attributes or fluent mapper API

- Store files and stream data (like GridFS in MongoDB)

- Single data file storage (like SQLite)

- Index document fields for fast search

- LINQ support for queries

- SQL-Like commands to access/transform data

- [LiteDB Studio](https://github.com/mbdavid/LiteDB.Studio) - Nice UI for data access 

- Open source and free for everyone - including commercial use

- Install from NuGet: `Install-Package LiteDB`



## New v5



- New storage engine

- No locks for `read` operations (multiple readers)

- `Write` locks per collection (multiple writers)

- Internal/System collections 

- New `SQL-Like Syntax`

- New query engine (support projection, sort, filter, query)

- Partial document load (root level)

- and much, much more!



## Lite.Studio



New UI to manage and visualize your database:



![LiteDB.Studio](https://www.litedb.org/images/banner.gif)



## Documentation



Visit [the Wiki](https://github.com/mbdavid/LiteDB/wiki) for full documentation. For simplified chinese version, [check here](https://github.com/lidanger/LiteDB.wiki_Translation_zh-cn).



## LiteDB Community



Help LiteDB grow its user community by answering this [simple survey](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4cNG7wyLKXXcOLIt7Ea4TlXCG6s-51_EfHPu2p5WZ2dIx7A/viewform?usp=sf_link)



## How to use LiteDB



A quick example for storing and searching documents:



```C#

// Create your POCO class

public class Customer

{

    public int Id { get; set; }

    public string Name { get; set; }

    public int Age { 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(@"MyData.db"))

{

    // Get customer collection

    var col = db.GetCollection("customers");



    // Create your new customer instance

    var customer = new Customer

    { 

        Name = "John Doe", 

        Phones = new string[] { "8000-0000", "9000-0000" }, 

        Age = 39,

        IsActive = true

    };



    // Create unique index in Name field

    col.EnsureIndex(x => x.Name, 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);



    // Use LINQ to query documents (with no index)

    var results = col.Find(x => x.Age > 20);

}

```



Using fluent mapper and cross document reference for more complex data models



```C#

// DbRef to cross references

public class Order

{

    public ObjectId Id { get; set; }

    public DateTime OrderDate { get; set; }

    public Address ShippingAddress { get; set; }

    public Customer Customer { get; set; }

    public List Products { get; set; }

}        



// Re-use mapper from global instance

var mapper = BsonMapper.Global;



// "Products" and "Customer" are from other collections (not embedded document)

mapper.Entity()

    .DbRef(x => x.Customer, "customers")   // 1 to 1/0 reference

    .DbRef(x => x.Products, "products")    // 1 to Many reference

    .Field(x => x.ShippingAddress, "addr"); // Embedded sub document

            

using(var db = new LiteDatabase("MyOrderDatafile.db"))

{

    var orders = db.GetCollection("orders");

        

    // When query Order, includes references

    var query = orders

        .Include(x => x.Customer)

        .Include(x => x.Products) // 1 to many reference

        .Find(x => x.OrderDate <= DateTime.Now);



    // Each instance of Order will load Customer/Products references

    foreach(var order in query)

    {

        var name = order.Customer.Name;

        ...

    }

}



```



## Where to use?



- Desktop/local small applications

- Application file format

- Small web sites/applications

- One database **per account/user** data store



## Plugins



- A GUI viewer tool: https://github.com/falahati/LiteDBViewer (v4)

- A GUI editor tool: https://github.com/JosefNemec/LiteDbExplorer (v4)

- Lucene.NET directory: https://github.com/sheryever/LiteDBDirectory

- LINQPad support: https://github.com/adospace/litedbpad

- F# Support: https://github.com/Zaid-Ajaj/LiteDB.FSharp (v4)

- UltraLiteDB (for Unity or IOT): https://github.com/rejemy/UltraLiteDB

- OneBella - cross platform (windows, macos, linux) GUI tool : https://github.com/namigop/OneBella

- LiteDB.Migration: Framework that makes schema migrations easier: https://github.com/JKamsker/LiteDB.Migration/



## Changelog



Change details for each release are documented in the [release notes](https://github.com/mbdavid/LiteDB/releases).



## Code Signing



LiteDB is digitally signed courtesy of [SignPath](https://www.signpath.io)





    




## License



[MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)