Are there any document-databases, similar to MongoDB, that run within an ASP.NET web application, and could be hosted on a server without any unique machine configuration?
I’m asking this because the hosting provider I’m currently with only support SQL Server 2008 as a database, but I’d like to run my website off a document database.
(Or am I better off going with a specialized database host, such as MongoHQ)?
I currently use MongoDB for ASP.NET apps and it works quite well … however we have our own servers.
The question here seems more to do with the host then MongoDB, or CouchDB, etc.
In this case, yes … I would say a good option would be to go with a hosting service like MongoHQ (they have quite reasonable rates compared to SQL Server hosts for example.)
That said why not just get a VPS that gives you total control of you Windows server?
You can find a Window VPS for reasonable prices and install whatever you want on them … including MongoDB.