Hypersonic is Open

Hypersonic started as an attempt to ease the pain of writing CRUD with ADO.NET. My goal was to simplify data persistence and retrieval.

In the early days of .NET, ORMs did not exist. ORMs were a foreign idea. Most companies had their own data access strategy. As a contractor, I’d seen many of these strategies. .TEXT was released by Scott Watermasysk in 2003. It was the first popular open source, if not THE first .Net blogging engine. I studied the code. I liked Scott’s approach to data access. He had elegantly decomposed the operations needed to persist and retrieve data. I leveraged his approach in Hypersonic.

In early 2006 I finished the first build of Hypersonic. It was one of many tools in my toolbox. It was not called Hypersonic then. I soon realized the value of what I had created and made it a stand alone library. Friends began to use it and before I knew it, it developed a small following.

Hypersonic is now at version 3. I have successfully used it for many projects over the years — it is still my tool of choice when developing against stored procedures.

I have decided to open source it. The data access problem has been solved with frameworks like nHibernate and Entity Framework.

My hope is others will find success using it.

The source is at GitHub.

The binaries are available.