Relational database options that work with .NET networking towards SQL (possibly using Linq)?

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Exactly what the title says ........... any thoughts on other good relational database implementations besides SQL Server DB.

The .NET Framework needs to be able to communicate with it as well.

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Goober 06 May '09 at 9:02

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Depending on what you need to do this, you can use Oracle, Firebird SQL, SQLite, MySQL, BerkeleyDB, or several others.

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Galwegian 06 May '09 at 9:05

Lots of them: Firebird , PostgreSQL , SQLite , MySQL to name a few.

Don't know about LINQ support there.

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Anton Gogolev 06 May '09 at 9:05

Eoin campbell · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-06T09:05:14+0000

Oracle, Postgres, MySql ... the list goes on ...

.NET has its own libraries to communicate with SqlServer, but you can connect to any ODBC / OLEDB enabled database under windows.