While I have not used it extensively, I did do some research into it over a year ago.

If you give some details of what you need to do with it, I might have something concrete to say. As it stands all that I can tell you is that it is written by the same person who wrote DB_File, it is fast, it can handle a lot of data, that data is only directly accessible on one machine, there are some locking gotchas I know about...

Beyond that, if you want to learn more I strongly recommend starting here and reading their documentation. Even though I eventually found that it was not appropriate for what I wanted to do, I learned a lot of useful stuff (both practical and theoretical) from that documentation...

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: BerkleyDB versions 2.x , 3.x by tilly
in thread BerkleyDB versions 2.x , 3.x by chorg

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