Berkeley DB

Berkeley DB (DB) is a high-performance, embedded database library with C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Tcl and many other language bindings. DB stores arbitrary key/data pairs, and supports multiple data items for a single key. DB can support thousands of simultaneous threads of control manipulating databases as large as 256 terabytes, on a wide variety of systems including most UNIX-like and Windows systems as well as real-time operating systems.

Related Topics:
Database - C - C++ - Java - Perl - Python - Tcl - UNIX-like - Windows - Real-time operating systems

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Berkeley DB is developed by Sleepycat Software. It is available with source code under a free software license. Developers who want to redistribute DB with proprietary applications must license it from Sleepycat.

Related Topics:
Sleepycat Software - Free software

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Berkeley DB includes compatibility interfaces for some historic UNIX database libraries: dbm, ndbm and hsearch.

Related Topics:
Dbm - Ndbm - Hsearch

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