Oracle Berkeley DB
The Industry-Leading Embedded Database
Oracle Berkeley DB provides developers with fast, reliable, zero administration database with a SQL, Key/value, or Java interface. Oracle Berkeley DB is a library that links directly into your application. It works equally well on a handset storing megabytes to gigabytes of data on flash, or on a massively parallel enterprise server with dozens or even hundreds of cores, gigabytes of memory, and terabytes of storage.
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Overview
- Eliminates overhead while providing the flexibility to tailor the database to your requirements
- All administration is performed via an API and hidden from the end user, no DBA required
- Great for mobile devices with static library size less than 1MB and runtime dynamic memory requirements of only a few KB
- Scales to massively parallel enterprise servers with gigabytes of memory and terabytes of storage
What's New in Release 5.1
Based on the ubiquitous SQLite version 3 API, Berkeley DB provides a drop-in compatible SQL database library and command line tool
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Access databases on disk using standards-compliant drivers such as ODBC, JDBC and ADO.NET
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Release 5.1 is a drop-in SQLite upgrade in any mobile device including Android and iOS
Read moreRelated Resources
- Solution brief: Highly Available Mobile Services Infrastructure Using Oracle Berkeley DB (PDF)
- Berkeley DB and SQLite (PDF)
- Performance and Configuration Options (PDF)
- Podcast: Berkeley DB Helps Adaptive Mobile Secure Your Cell Phone from Cyber Attack (MP3)
- Podcast: UnboundID Embed Berkeley DB (MP3)
More about Berkeley DB
Berkeley DB is the industry's leading family of embeddable databases. It comes in three distinct editions to suite your needs.
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