Soil is an object oriented database in pharo. It is transaction based having ACID transactions. It has binary search capabilities with SkipList and BTree+ indexes. It aims to be a simple yet powerful database making it easy to develop with, easy to debug with, easy to inspect, ...
To read more please have a look at the documentation
Load it in 64bit Pharo 11/12 with Metacello:
Metacello new
repository: 'github://ApptiveGrid/Soil:main/src';
baseline: 'Soil';
load.Note: For now, Windows is not supported. Contact us if you want to help!
caution Soil is in an early stage meaning there are might be things missing. It is battle tested as it is the driving database behind ApptiveGrid but you might have different requirements. If so, tell us!
The latest release is v1 which you can load via
Metacello new
repository: 'github://ApptiveGrid/Soil:v1/src';
baseline: 'Soil';
load.note: Releases in Soil are branches. Loading it with a release tag will get the hot fixes of that release. If you do not want this please use the commit hash as version instead
We use github for organizing our development. You can see what we are doing right now on the project board. An up-to-date list of milestones you can find in milestones.
NEWS
- Slides from the ESUG2023 talk: Download PDF
- Soil got the second prize in the 2023 ESUG Innovation Technology Awards !
