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The C# code is Open Source and available for download to use in any commerical, personal or scholastic project. The source is licensed under the MIT software license.
Crawling through flat files can take a lot of time. Using a high level language such as C# by itself simply cannot perform at adequate speeds. With the help of assembly language, files of even a gigabyte or more will take seconds to query instead of minutes.
Some applications will need to discover new and updated records. This is important when synchronizing an external database. CarsonDB can find records that have changed in a table in seconds. It doesn't matter even if the file is over a gigabyte in size.
Even though CarsonDB is in its early release, all tables and functions have automated unit tests associated with them. These tests are executed and must be completed successfully before any releases are made publicly. Stable, accurate and bug free software are of prime importance when developing CarsonDB. All tests are included in the source code.
It is easy. First, you must agree to conform to the licensing model. The C# libraries are released as Open Source software under the MIT license. For more information on this license, please click here. The Assembly language libraries are freeware, but are subject to the freeware license agreement. Please click here for more information on this license. Download the NuGet package here and you'll be ready to get stated. Commercial licenses will be offered on an exception basis. There is no pricing available for a commerical license at this time.
GST Computing, LLC does not wish to expose AVImark's proprietary database format. Releasing the Assembly source would do that and potentially give others the ability to corrupt data by writing back to these databases. This library is purposely read only. For that reason, the source code will not be released.
x86 and x64 Assembly language is different. Porting from one to another is not as easy as selecting x64 and recompiling. The Windows libraries work differently and the CPU registers are 64-bits wide. We do plan on porting to x64 if there is sufficient demand. Since we need to be able to run on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, we chose to initially release to the x86 version. Unfortuately, that will cause you to compile your projects as x86. Since the Assembly library is memory efficient, the 2 GB memory barrier should never be a problem.
We have no plans to port at this time. Part of the driving force behind this is that AVImark runs natively only on Windows environments. A Linux or macOS enivornment can be used as a file server in this type of setup, so porting will be considered in the future if there is sufficient demand.
Not at this time. Again, as stated with many of the other questions, if there is sufficient demand, it will be considered.
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