in reply to DB_File size limitations?

While not related to your file size question, you may want to use the perl module BerkeleyDB rather than DB_File since it can take advantage of much more of Berkeley DB features. Also, BTW the anonymonk's comment that Berkeley DB is not a server is wrong - of course Berkeley DB is a server. Perhaps what he/she meant is that there is no SQL front end to that server, but there again he/she is also now wrong - the DBI distribution comes with DBD::DBM which provides a DBI/SQL front end to Berkeley DB using either of the perl modules (BerkeleyDB or DB_File). DBD::DBM's SQL is limited, but it can do INNER and OUTER joins on two tables so minimally qualifies as an RDBMS.

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Re^2: DB_File size limitations?
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 21, 2004 at 12:06 UTC
    how is it a server?
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      From the Sleepycat home page:

      Berkeley DB provides fast, reliable, recoverable data storage and retrieval services to developers building applications.
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        No really, there is no server. BerkeleyDB does not run in a separate process and there is nothing to start and stop. It accomplished all of these things without any server.
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