About:
Berkeley DB (libdb) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. It includes b+tree, queue, extended linear hashing, fixed, and variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, database recovery, and replication for highly available systems. DB supports C, C++, Java, PHP, and Perl APIs. It is available for a wide variety of UNIX platforms as well as Windows XP, Windows NT, and Windows '95 (MSVC 6 and 7).

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
Non-stop upgrades for replicated systems: customers can upgrade/patch the database without taking the entire system down. Multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) allows read transactions to proceed without being blocked by write transactions, therefore improving concurrency and performance. Replication framework is a pre-built, out of the box framework that makes it faster and easier for developers to build replicated apps.

Author:
Gregory Burd [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.48/10.00 (12 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/
Tar/GZ:
http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.5.20.tar.gz
Zip:
http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.5.20.zip
Changelog:
http://www.sleepycat.com/update/4.5.20/if.4.5.20.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Intended Audience]		Developers, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved
[Operating System]		Microsoft, Other OS, POSIX
[Programming Language]		C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Tcl
[Topic]		Database :: Database Engines/Servers

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	4.5.20	29-Sep-2006	OSI Approved

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
4.5.20	Major feature enhancements	29-Sep-2006 17:54
4.4.16	Major feature enhancements	13-Dec-2005 19:14
4.3.28	Minor bugfixes	02-May-2005 20:24
4.3.27	Minor bugfixes	03-Jan-2005 18:35
4.3.21	Major feature enhancements	10-Nov-2004 15:40
4.2.52	N/A	13-Apr-2004 16:36
4.1.25	Minor bugfixes	26-Dec-2002 23:07
4.1.24	Minor feature enhancements	20-Sep-2002 06:57
4.0.14	Major feature enhancements	04-Dec-2001 22:39
3.3.11	Major feature enhancements	23-Jul-2001 19:12

 Articles referencing this project

• Non-SQL Databases for Linux
  by Christopher Browne , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Oct 6th 2001 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] Discussion Forum
by Eeshwar - Aug 19th 2003 01:23:30

Is there any discussion forum specific to BerkeleyDB?

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[»] Re: Discussion Forum
by nthomas - Feb 11th 2004 18:21:00


> Is there any discussion forum specific
> to BerkeleyDB?

There is a Usenet newsgroup, comp.databases.berkeley-db, that was created recently.

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[»] License
by Paul Gear - Oct 19th 2000 06:25:36

I don't think that "free for non-commercial use" is a very accurate description of the license in the Sleepycat Berkeley DB distribution. As far as i can tell, it is compliant with the Open Source definition (they certainly claim that it is).

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[»] Re: License
by jeff covey - Aug 26th 2000 10:53:59

The license field has been updated.

Thanks,
Jeff

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[»] License
by Rainer Canavan - Aug 16th 2000 11:50:15

The BerkeleyDB isn't "freely distributable", instead, for closed source applications, one needs a license, starting at US$ 20k, up to 125k, depending on the features you need (multiuser capability or desaster recovery etc..).

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[»] Re: License
by Tester - Jan 26th 2002 17:39:15

The SleepyCat license is very similar to the GPL and it is free as long as its used in a Free application. You only need to purchase a license from SleepyCat if it is to be used in a proprietary application. The SleepyCat license is also 100% GPL compatible, so it can be used in GPLed software..
See http://www.sleepycat.com/licensing.html for details

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[»] Compiling!
by AsMoDeUs - Jun 11th 2000 07:56:50

I'm completely clueless as to how to compile source code written with this library. I tried linking to all sorts of things but nothing seems to work. There isn't enough to help in the documentation.

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