Berkeley DB

Programming Model

The Berkeley DB distribution is a database library, in which the library is linked into the address space of the application using it. The code using Berkeley DB may be a standalone application or it may be a server providing functionality to many clients via inter-process or remote-process communication (IPC/RPC).

In the standalone application model, one or more applications link the Berkeley DB library directly into their address spaces. There may be many threads of control in this model because Berkeley DB supports locking for both multiple processes and for multiple threads within a process. This model provides significantly faster access to the database functionality, but implies trust among all threads of control sharing ...