GenerativeComponents includes facilities for accessing data stored in many types of databases; generally, any kind of database that's supported by ADO.NET.

GenerativeComponents provides two general techniques for accessing databases. The first technique uses the Node types, DataImporter and DataExporter. The second technique uses the GCScript Classes, DataConnection and DataTable.

The first technique is generally easier to use, while the second technique is generally more versatile.

In both cases, the underlying implementation is based around ADO.NET. However, you won't work directly with ADO.NET's classes (unless you write your own custom node classes in C# or VB.NET).