Berkeley DB

Selecting an Access Method

The Berkeley DB access method implementation unavoidably interacts with each application’s data set, locking requirements, and data access patterns. For this reason, one access method may result in a dramatically better performance for an application than another one. Applications whose data can be stored using more than one access method may want to benchmark their performance using the different candidates.

One of the strengths of Berkeley DB is that it provides multiple access methods with nearly identical interfaces to the different access methods. This means that it is simple to modify an application to use a different access method. Applications can easily benchmark the different Berkeley DB access methods against ...