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<span class="sect2">
<a href="usingDbt.html#databaseWrite">Writing Records to the Database</a>
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<a href="usingDbt.html#databaseRead">Getting Records from the Database</a>
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<p>
When reading and writing database records, be aware that there are some
slight differences in behavior depending on whether your database supports duplicate
records. Two or more database records are considered to be duplicates of
one another if they share the same key. The collection of records
sharing the same key are called a <span class="emphasis"><em>duplicates set.</em></span>
</p>
<p>
By default, JE databases do
not support duplicate records. Where duplicate records are supported,
cursors (see below) are used
to access all of the records in the duplicates set.
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<p>
JE provides two basic mechanisms for the storage and retrieval of database
key/data pairs:
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The
<code class="methodname">Database.put()</code>
and
<code class="methodname">Database.get()</code>
methods provide the easiest access for all non-duplicate records in the database.
These methods are described in this section.
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<p>Cursors provide several methods for putting and getting database
records. Cursors and their database access methods are described in
<a class="xref" href="Cursors.html" title="Chapter 9. Using Cursors">Using Cursors</a>.</p>
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Database records are stored in the internal BTree based on
whatever sorting routine is available to the database. Records are
sorted first by their key. If the database supports duplicate records,
then the records for a specific key are sorted by their data.
</p>
<p>
By default, JE sorts both keys and the data portion of duplicate
records using unsigned byte-by-byte
lexicographic comparisons. This default comparison works well for the
majority of cases. However, in some case performance benefits can be
realized by overriding the default comparison routine. See <a class="xref" href="comparator.html" title="Using Comparators">Using Comparators</a> for more information.
</p>
<p>You can use the following methods to put database records:</p>
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<code class="methodname">Database.put()</code>
</p>
<p>
Puts a database record into the database. If your database does not
support duplicate records, and if the provided key already exists in
the database, then the currently existing record is replaced with
the new data.
</p>
<p>
Be aware that version of this method exists which accepts a
<code class="classname">Put</code> enum. If <code class="literal">Put.OVERWRITE</code>
is provided, then existing database records are
overwritten. If <code class="literal">Put.NO_OVERWRITE</code> is
provided, then existing records will not be overwritten.
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<code class="methodname">Database.putNoOverwrite()</code>
</p>
<p>
Disallows overwriting (replacing) an existing record in the
database. If the provided key already exists in the database,
then this method returns
<code class="literal">OperationStatus.KEYEXIST</code> even if
the database supports duplicates.
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<code class="methodname">Database.putNoDupData()</code>
</p>
<p>
Puts a database record into the database. If the provided key
and data already exists in the database (that is, if you are
attempting to put a record that compares equally to an existing
record), then this returns
<code class="literal">OperationStatus.KEYEXIST</code>.
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<p>
When you put database records, you provide both the key and the data as
<code class="classname">DatabaseEntry</code> objects. This means you must
convert your key and data into a Java <code class="literal">byte</code> array. For
example:
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<a id="je_dbt3"></a>
<pre class="programlisting">package je.gettingStarted;
import com.sleepycat.je.Database;
import com.sleepycat.je.DatabaseEntry;
...
// Environment and database opens omitted for clarity.
// Environment and database must NOT be opened read-only.
String aKey = "myFirstKey";
String aData = "myFirstData";
try {
DatabaseEntry theKey = new DatabaseEntry(aKey.getBytes("UTF-8"));
DatabaseEntry theData = new DatabaseEntry(aData.getBytes("UTF-8"));
myDatabase.put(null, theKey, theData);
} catch (Exception e) {
// Exception handling goes here
} </pre>
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<h3 class="title"><a id="databaseRead"></a>Getting Records from the Database</h3>
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<p>
The <code class="classname">Database</code> class provides several
methods that you can use to retrieve database records. Note that if your
database supports duplicate records, then these methods will only ever
return the first record in a duplicate set. For this reason, if your
database supports duplicates, you should use a cursor to retrieve
records from it. Cursors are described in <a class="xref" href="Cursors.html" title="Chapter 9. Using Cursors">Using Cursors</a>.
</p>
<p>
You can use either of the following methods to retrieve records from the database:
</p>
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<li>
<p>
<code class="methodname">Database.get()</code>
</p>
<p>Retrieves the record whose key matches the key provided to the
method. If no records exists that uses the provided key, then
<code class="literal">OperationStatus.NOTFOUND</code> is returned.</p>
<span>
</span>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<code class="methodname">Database.getSearchBoth()</code>
</p>
<p>Retrieve the record whose key matches both the key and the data
provided to the method. If no record exists that uses the provided
key and data, then <code class="literal">OperationStatus.NOTFOUND</code> is
returned.</p>
</li>
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<p>Both the key and data for a database record are returned as
byte arrays in <code class="classname">DatabaseEntry</code> objects. These objects are
passed as parameter values to the <code class="methodname">Database.get()</code> method.
</p>
<p>In order to retrieve your data once <code class="classname">Database.get()</code>
has completed, you must retrieve the <code class="literal">byte</code> array stored
in the <code class="classname">DatabaseEntry</code> and then convert that
<code class="literal">byte</code> array back to the
appropriate datatype. For example:</p>
<a id="je_dbt4"></a>
<pre class="programlisting">package je.gettingStarted;
import com.sleepycat.je.Database;
import com.sleepycat.je.DatabaseEntry;
import com.sleepycat.je.LockMode;
import com.sleepycat.je.OperationStatus;
...
// Environment and database opens omitted for clarity.
// Environment and database may be opened read-only.
String aKey = "myFirstKey";
try {
// Create a pair of DatabaseEntry objects. theKey
// is used to perform the search. theData is used
// to store the data returned by the get() operation.
DatabaseEntry theKey = new DatabaseEntry(aKey.getBytes("UTF-8"));
DatabaseEntry theData = new DatabaseEntry();
// Perform the get.
if (myDatabase.get(null, theKey, theData, LockMode.DEFAULT) ==
OperationStatus.SUCCESS) {
// Recreate the data String.
byte[] retData = theData.getData();
String foundData = new String(retData, "UTF-8");
System.out.println("For key: '" + aKey + "' found data: '" +
foundData + "'.");
} else {
System.out.println("No record found for key '" + aKey + "'.");
}
} catch (Exception e) {
// Exception handling goes here
}</pre>
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<h3 class="title"><a id="recordDelete"></a>Deleting Records</h3>
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<p>
You can use the
<code class="methodname">Database.delete()</code>
method to delete a record from the database. If your database supports
duplicate records, then all records associated with the provided key are
deleted. To delete just one record from a list of duplicates, use a
cursor. Cursors are described in <a class="xref" href="Cursors.html" title="Chapter 9. Using Cursors">Using Cursors</a>.
</p>
<p>
You can also delete every record in the database by using
<code class="methodname">Environment.truncateDatabase().</code>
</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<a id="je_dbt5"></a>
<pre class="programlisting">package je.gettingStarted;
import com.sleepycat.je.Database;
import com.sleepycat.je.DatabaseEntry;
...
// Environment and database opens omitted for clarity.
// Environment and database can NOT be opened read-only.
try {
String aKey = "myFirstKey";
DatabaseEntry theKey = new DatabaseEntry(aKey.getBytes("UTF-8"));
// Perform the deletion. All records that use this key are
// deleted.
myDatabase.delete(null, theKey);
} catch (Exception e) {
// Exception handling goes here
}</pre>
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<p>
When you perform a database modification, your modification is made
in the in-memory cache. This means that your data modifications
are not necessarily flushed to disk, and so your data may not appear
in the database after an application restart.
</p>
<p>
Therefore, if you care if your data is durable across system
failures, and to guard against the rare possibility of
database corruption, you should use transactions to protect your
database modifications. Every time you commit a transaction, JE
ensures that the data will not be lost due to application or
system failure. Transaction usage is described in the
<span>
<em class="citetitle">Berkeley DB, Java Edition Getting Started with Transaction Processing</em> guide.
</span>
</p>
<p>
If you do not want to use transactions, then the assumption is that
your data is of a nature that it need not exist the next time your
application starts. You may want this if, for example, you are using
JE to cache data relevant only to the current application
runtime.
</p>
<p>
If, however, you are not using transactions for some reason and you
still want some guarantee that your database modifications are
persistent, then you should periodically
<span>run environment syncs.</span>
Syncs cause any dirty entries in the in-memory cache and the
operating system's file cache to be written to disk. As
such, they are quite expensive and you should use them sparingly.
</p>
<p>
Note that by default, a sync is run every time you close an environment.
You can also run a sync by calling the <code class="methodname">Environment.sync()</code>
method.
</p>
<p>
For a brief description of how JE manages its data in the cache
and in the log files, and how sync works, see <a class="xref" href="backuprestore.html#databaselogs" title="Databases and Log Files">Databases and Log Files</a>.
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