Can NHibernate persist to flat files instead of database?

Question

Here is a curiousity question. I have an application that must support both flat files and the database as a place to persist data. I was thinking maybe using a .csv or tab-delimited set of files as input ...

Is it possible to use NHibernate to write to do both persistance tasks?

Answer 1

Try using the Jet engine (see this)

Dialect and other nhibernate settings should be the ones for Microsoft Access.

Answer 2

No not to the best of my knowledge. I have the same requirement and have ended up just using flat XML files and hand rolling all the CRUD.

Just today I did happen to notice this File System Database on codeplex but haven't looked into it properly yet.