Oracle Berkeley DB

Oracle Berkeley DB is a family of embedded key-value database libraries providing scalable high-performance data management services to applications. Berkeley DB offers advanced features including transactional data storage, highly concurrent access, scalability on large SMP systems, replication for high availability, and fault tolerance in a self-contained, small footprint software library. The Berkeley DB uses simple function-call APIs for data access and management. Berkeley DB enables the development of custom data management solutions, without the overhead traditionally associated with such custom projects. Berkeley DB provides a collection of well-proven building-block technologies that can be configured to address any application need from the hand-held device to the data center, from a local storage solution to a world-wide distributed one, from kilobytes to petabytes. The primary goal of Berkeley DB is to deliver fast, scalable and flexible data management services to your application while remaining transparent to the end-user. Berkeley DB provides simple function-call interfaces to store and retrieve information quickly and easily. Data can be stored in the application’s native format, XML,SQL or as a Java Object. It supports most programming languages, including C, C++, Java, C#, Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl, Ruby and many others. Berkeley DB is designed for zero oversight in deployment, automating all administrative tasks with programmatic APIs. If you do not need SQL then use the key/value API for data storage. Berkeley DB provides a single-master, multi-replica highly available database configuration. Replication enables read scalability, fast fail-over, hot-standby and other distributed configurations, giving enterprise grade features in a small, embedded package.