History

• Originally developed at Berkeley
• 1996 - present: developed & maintained by Sleepycat Software

Concept of Berkeley DB

• Not relational
• No query language
• Key/value pairs
• Embedded - linked into application address space
• Function call API: transparent interaction with database via hash, btree, queue, record number access methodology

• No query language: no parsing overhead
• Embedded into application address space: no network connection overhead
• Nested transactions
• Replication
• Massive maximum database size (256 TB)
• RPC interface

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