BrightstarDB Public Beta Released

After a few months of a successful closed beta period, we are now pleased to announce the release of the first public beta of BrightstarDB. If you are new to this site you might want to take a read of Why BrightstarDB to understand what makes BrightstarDB special, but in short BrightstarDB is a native .NET triple-store that provides all the features of NoSQL data-stores, plus a fully functional .NET entity framework complete with support for LINQ queries. With BrightstarDB you can also easily publish your data as RDF Linked Data with a SPARQL endpoint and now also as OData. BrightstarDB scales up to enterprise-scale data and down to run on a mobile phone.

For those of you who are upgrading from the closed beta, the Whats New section of the documentation describes the new features.

BrightstarDB is available to download now. If you do download please consider adding this blog’s feed to your RSS feed reader and/or joining our Google Group where you can post questions and get answers directly from the developers.

Previous Entries

Blog rolling with BrightstarDB, Express and Node.js

Inspired by the use of Node.js and mongoDB in this How To Node article, this tutorial aims to show how BrightstarDB can also be used with Node to create a simple blogging system.

Developer Preview Update

We are very happy to announce the release of a new version of the BrightstarDB Developer Preview. This post contains a brief overview of the new features in this release. As with the previous release, this Developer Preview is only available to those on our early-access list, so if this post whets your appetite, please signup for a download.

Adding a MembershipProvider to your MVC3 application

In this tutorial we are going to create a Custom Membership Provider that will enable an MVC3 Web Application to use BrightstarDB as our datasource.

Entity Framework Getting Started – A Short Video

With BrightstarDB we have tried to keep the overhead of creating a persistent data model down to a minimum. The goal is to create a great experience that doesn’t prevent developers from building the model they want to build or from focusing on the problems they need to solve. Follow the link to a short video that shows how to get started using the BrightstarDB Entity Framework from inside Visual Studio 2010.

Enable SPARQL query in your MVC3 application

BrightstarDB uses SPARQL as its primary query language. Because of this and because all the entities you create with the BrightstarDB entity framework are RDF resources, it is possible to turn your application into a part of the Linked Data web with just a few lines of code. The easiest way to achieve this is…
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BrightstarDB Blog

Welcome to the BrightstarDB Blog. This blog will host articles, videos and how-to’s all about BrightstarDB. BrightstarDB is a revolution in data solutions. It provides a native .NET, schema-free, NoSQL triple store with fabulous performance, and a complete, code first, Entity Framework with full LINQ capabilities. In building BrightstarDB we wanted to deliver the ultimate…
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