My efforts at evaluating Tokyo Cabinet hit a bit of a dead-end when I realised there were no .NET bindings for it. I suppose I could have evaluated it using Ruby or Python, but that would have just been putting off the inevitable. At some stage I would need .NET bindings if I was to use it in a project.
So I’ve gone ahead and implemented the TokyoTyrant binary network protocol in a .NET wrapper. I’ve open-sourced my efforts, and you can download the source from CodePlex at http://tokyotyrant.codeplex.com.
I am mostly interested in using Tokyo Cabinet as a document database, so my implementation fully supports the table database mode of Tokyo Cabinet. It’s a full implementation though, so there is support for it’s various key/value modes too.
Mono is fully supported and there is a comprehensive example project, so getting up and running should be easy.
Give the library a spin and let me know if you have any (hopefully constructive) criticism.
