Interview of Christof Wittig CEO of db4o

Patrice Lamarche had the opportunity to interview Christoff Wittig, CEO of db4objects.

db4objects sponsors the open source database db4o which is a native object database engine for .NET and Java.

There are several aspects that I particularly like in what I read:

• The way the company seems to work with distributed employees all around the world
• The open source development model

And from a technical aspect I really like this kind of code:

    IList<Student> students = 
        db.Query<Student>(
            delegate(Student student)
            {  
                return student.Age < 20 && student.Grade == gradeA;  
            }
        );

It is named Native Queries, and it is 100% type safe, I like when the compiler already tells me that my code has a defect.

There are other good points about it that I will have to test, when I get time…