Anyone know of a commercially available file based storage system that meets the following requirements:
Should not require installation Should provide APIs to read and write onto the storage system, preferably .net APIs Paid/Free (either way it should be supported) Should be fast and efficient
Basically I am looking for something with database like functionality with the least footprint.
Take a look at Sqlite. It has become the standard solution for a file based database solution - it's even built in to the iPhone, Firefox and many other high profile software/devices.
My Google-fu gave me this simple tutorial of using Sqlite with .net: sqlite-on-dotnet-in-3-mins
Try MongoDB it's a file based document database. Installing it is done by copying it's files and it has a C# driver to read/write data from it.