I'm developing a WPF application whose core functionality involves creating a large object graph (often tens of thousands of entities) which the user can modify certain parts of, then save to a database. A graph can also be subsequently retrieved, modified and saved again. It's feasible that a user can create dozens of these graphs per day.The app also provides the user with different ways to search the entities in the database (predominantly text searches on various fields), presenting the search results to the user and allowing the user to select one, which will result in the relevant entity graph being retrieved in full and presented for the user to view and modify as above.Currently I'm using Entity Framework and SQL Express, but I'm uneasy about certain aspects of the architecture and design, and the client isn't keen on having to install SS. I've only recently come across the concept of NoSql databases, and sounds like they might be a good fit for what I'm doing, but I have a couple of questions.First, I'm assuming performance wouldn't be any worse than EF when reading or writing one of these object graphs?What about my app's search functionality? Will a NoSql db support this sort of thing, and what would the performance be like, bearing in mind the size and quantity of documents that I'm likely to have.What about lookup (reference) data? Would I duplicate such data in each NoSQL document, or would I keep it all in a single NoSql document and store their IDs in the main documents?Finally, any recommendations for a product? MongoDb and RavenDb seem to be the main OSS contenders for Windows.
Is a NoSQL database suitable for me?
nosql;mongodb;ravendb