Alternative to Sqlite for iPhone [monotouch]

Question

Like the title says.

I find a lot of the issues I have are related to the lack of thread safety in the Sqlite wrapper needed for using Sqlite with Monotouch - so - the question is - is there an alternative? There must be something!!?

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Answer 1

Sqlite itself is not thread safe, so you need to manually take a lock whenever you are going to access the database. You can see how I did this with TweetStation:

http://github.com/migueldeicaza/TweetStation/

This allows me to update the database in the background.

There are a couple of bindings to Sqlite: sqlite-net which is a tiny Sqlite binding or Mono.Data.Sqlite.

As for CoreData, it would have the same problems, you do not get thread safety for free, you need to follow their rules as well.