Testing Berkeley DB

USENIX Association

Sleepycat Software develops and supports the Open Source software product Berkeley DB, the most widely deployed embedded database software in the world. and in this paper, we discuss the differences between research software and a quality commercial product. Over the past years we have acquired an education in configuration, portability, and testing. The key message is that code quality, a will...

Berkeley DB

The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is an embedded database system that can be used in applications requiring high-performance concurrent storage and retrieval of key/value pairs. The software is distributed as a library that can be linked directly into an application. It provides a variety of programmatic interfaces, including callable APIs for C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, and Tcl. Users may do...

Berkeley DB: A Retrospective

Berkeley DB is an open-source, embedded transactional data management system that has been in wide deployment since 1992. In those fifteen years, it has grown from a simple, non-transactional key-data store to a highly reliable, scalable, flexible data management solution. We trace the history of Berkeley DB and discuss how a small library provides data management solutions appropriate to dispa...

Oracle Berkeley DB: Performance Metrics and Benchmarks

The Advanced Computing Systems Association

Berkeley DB is an Open Source embedded database system with a number of key advantages over comparable systems. It is simple to use, supports concurrent access by multiple users, and provides industrial-strength transaction support, including surviving system and disk crashes. This paper describes the design and technical features of Berkeley DB, the distribution, and its license.