Fair enough. But if you get a chance then have a play with MongoDB. You can even host a basic setup free on the cloud with Amazon (and, I think, Azure and others). Or run it as a local Windows service....

>Yeah, the free is hard to pass up. I'd like a chance to work with RavenDB simply because it was written by the fellow that wrote NHibernate and he and I have a lot of the same opinions.
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>>Hadn't heard of it :-{
>>But, from a quick look, it seems a bit like MongoDB (which, by coincidence, I just mentioned to Craig)
>>And MongoDB *is* free :-}
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>>>I haven't used RavenDB, but I've heard great things. However, it's not free.
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>>>>OK. Of course, when I said 'no MVC' that's not true in the generic sense - the MVC is on the client side using angular rather than ASP.NET MVC on the server.....
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>>>>Must admit I prefer how routing is handled in angular over the ASP.NET MVC (or WebApi) routing....
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>>>>Off topic : have you used MongoDB ? Using it at the moment and it's *fast* (even with the C# drivers) - but I don't know if I'd trust it for serious LOB stuff.....
>>>>And you also don't need any ORM (since it's not relational in the first place)
>>>>>You cleared it up. Your first post about Angular and WebAPI had me confused as I read it as you were using them without ANY C#, when you need it on the server to serve up the data. I wondered how you did that.
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>>>>>>Sorry. Not sure how I could have been clearer :-{