Berkeley DB

Testing Berkeley DB

Oracle Berkeley DB is a family of database engines that provide high performance, transactional data management on a wide variety of platforms. Berkeley DB products are available under a dual license: an open source license and a commercial license. We discuss some of the standard testing and tuning techniques used for ensuring the quality and reliability of the Berkeley DB library, emphasizing...

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.

A Modular and Efficient Past State System for Berkeley DB

Applications often need to analyze past states to predict trends and support audits. Adding efficient and nondisruptive support for consistent past-state analysis requires after-the-fact modification of the data store, a significant challenge for today’s systems. This paper describes Retro, a new system for supporting consistent past state analysis in Berkeley DB. The key novelty of Retro is an...