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DocumentDb runs on ten-odd backends, but picking one used to be a line of C# inside your service. The Aspire integration moves that decision into the AppHost — the consuming code becomes one provider-agnostic line with health checks and OpenTelemetry attached, the admin UI becomes a resource, and an entire Orleans silo points at the same store.
Membership, grain storage, reminders, grain directory and streams are five separate provider contracts. Shiny.DocumentDb.Orleans implements all five on one IDocumentStore — one connection string, grain state you can query without waking a grain, and a stream backlog you can actually open and look at.
Thirteen major versions in, there's a lot of DocumentDb that shipped in a bullet list and never got explained. A store that diffs documents for you, a read path that never deserializes, and an extensibility surface that soft delete is entirely built out of.
v13 puts AES-256-GCM field encryption in the core package, adds a transactional outbox that commits with the write that caused it, and gives a document type a front door — REST + Server-Sent Events, and an MCP server. Plus Orleans streams on the database you already have, and admin tools that read an encrypted store without a key.
v12 ships an admin UI for your document stores, schema-free JSON collections with no CLR type at all, interceptors that can replace a write, soft delete in the box, a fully trim/AOT-clean package set, and a provider consolidation that deleted 4,300 lines and found four real bugs on its way out.
Shiny.DocumentDb.Orleans puts the whole Orleans persistence stack — grain storage, reminders, clustering, and grain directory — on one backend-agnostic IDocumentStore. The headline win: query grain state directly, without activating a single grain.
v6 adds cross-provider vector / ANN search, EF-style global query filters, composite JSON indexes, real connection pooling on server SQL, and per-query change monitoring — without changing the schema-free, AOT-safe shape of the API.
Shiny.DocumentDb.Extensions.AI turns your document store into a set of LLM-callable tools. Register types, set capabilities, and let the agent query, insert, update, and delete documents through natural language.
The SQLite document store grows up. v3 adds MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL support with a clean provider abstraction — same fluent LINQ queries, same AOT support, any backend.
v2.0.0 introduces table-per-type mapping, custom Id properties, document diffing via GetDiff, batch insert, a standalone core library without DI dependencies, and a convenience constructor — all fully AOT-safe
A new library that turns SQLite into a document database with a fluent LINQ query builder, streaming, pagination, aggregates, indexes, projections, and full AOT support — no migrations required
