LINQ to DB VS LiteDB

Compare LINQ to DB vs LiteDB and see what are their differences.

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LINQ to DB LiteDB
20 11
2,845 8,161
1.1% -
8.9 8.0
1 day ago 2 days ago
C# C#
MIT License MIT License
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LINQ to DB

Posts with mentions or reviews of LINQ to DB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.

LiteDB

Posts with mentions or reviews of LiteDB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-02.
  • Local migrations for embedded SQLite in F#
    5 projects | dev.to | 2 Mar 2024
    Personally, I used to use LiteDB which is a NoSQL version which in v4 paired very nicely with F# thanks to Zaid's lovely LiteDB.FSharp library. Sadly, when v5 showed up, a lot of the F# niceties were lost given how the API was changed and v5 was not very F# friendly. You can still use it of course but you fall back to more unsafe F# code which is not ideal.
  • Yet another embedded DB (kind of)
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 10 May 2023
    Are you aware of LiteDB? It seems like your project is going for a very similar niche. Most people looking for this type of thing will probably go for the more mature and feature-rich solution (LiteDB). So if your project has some unique value proposition to distinguish it from LiteDB, you should elaborate on that.
  • How to introduce a queue for my API.
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 23 Jan 2023
    Looks like LiteDb is thread safe so it would be useful to see the error stack and the exact error message.
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 23 Jan 2023
    Please consider using the primary key to generate an unique value on the db side.
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 23 Jan 2023
  • Unity MVVM
    5 projects | /r/gamedev | 27 Dec 2022
    LiteDB
  • LiteDB: A .NET embedded NoSQL database
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Nov 2022
    Before checking this out, people might want to take a look through the issues and pull requests of which there are 500+ and 50+ respectively [1]. I was really optimistic about this project and it was headed in a great direction, but it's not in a production ready state, and it seems that the main guy behind it has decided to move onto other things. It's been about a year since there was any significant activity.

    I just mention this because a lot of these little issues might only become more apparent after integrating the db into your project and so it can be a bit annoying. I ended up swapping to Linq2DB [1]. It's something, more or less, similar offering an ORM/LINQ type system as well as the ability to also use direct SQL if desired. But the neat thing is that it also uses a standardized API for the LINQ query language, so you can do things like swap from SQLite to PostgreSQL in one* line of code, so long as you're not using any provider specific extensions.

    [1] - https://github.com/mbdavid/LiteDB

    [2] - https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db

    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Nov 2022
    One reason:

    SQLite is slower than LiteDB in this benchmark project created by the LiteDB inventor

    https://github.com/mbdavid/LiteDB-Benchmark

    https://github.com/mbdavid/LiteDB/issues/291

    Another (lesser) reason is the similarity to MongoDB methods, if that's what you are used to it will feel familiar, but no MongoDB server needed.

    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Nov 2022
  • What sort of mature, open-source libraries do you feel Rust should have but currently lacks?
    22 projects | /r/rust | 1 Nov 2021
    A mature NoSQL embedded/flatfile database like LiteDB would be nice. There are some similar Rust libraries but they aren't very close to production ready and the API tends to not be too user friendly. I had trouble finding one of these for a small app I had to write recently.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing LINQ to DB and LiteDB you can also consider the following projects:

Dapper - Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net [Moved to: https://github.com/DapperLib/Dapper]

Entity Framework - EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.

RavenDB - ACID Document Database

MongoDB - The MongoDB Database

Realm Xamarin - Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & ORMs

MongoDB Repository pattern implementation

Apache Ignite - Apache Ignite

TypeORM - ORM for TypeScript and JavaScript. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SAP Hana, WebSQL databases. Works in NodeJS, Browser, Ionic, Cordova and Electron platforms.

Event Store - EventStoreDB, the event-native database. Designed for Event Sourcing, Event-Driven, and Microservices architectures

DBreeze - C# .NET NOSQL ( key value store embedded ) ACID multi-paradigm database management system.

RepoDb - A hybrid ORM library for .NET.

NHibernate - NHibernate Object Relational Mapper