Everybody working on Unix or in the database world stumbles over
Oracle Berkeley DB every now and then. DB is an
Open Source embedded database used by applications like OpenLDAP
or Postfix. Traditionally it followed mostly a key-value access
pattern. Now what caught my attention was the fact that the
recently released DB 5.0 provides an SQLite-like C API with the promise of
providing better concurrency and performance than regular SQLite.
Time to give it a shot.
So I grabbed the source distribution, checked the documentation and saw that I shall use the …
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