Berkeley DB

Sleepycat Software’s Berkeley DB Products

Sleepycat Software licenses three different products that use the Berkeley DB technology, and each product offers a distinct level of database support. It is not possible to mix and match products; that is, each application or group of applications must use the same Berkeley DB product.

All three products are included in the single Open Source distribution of Berkeley DB from Sleepycat Software, and building that distribution automatically builds all three products. Each product adds services and new interfaces to the product that precedes it in the list. As a result, developers can download Berkeley DB and build an application that does only single-user, read-only database access; later, they can add ...