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The Berkeley DB family of open source, embeddable databases
provides developers with fast, reliable persistence with zero
administration. Often deployed as "edge" databases, the Berkeley DB
family provides very high performance, reliability, scalability,
and availability for application use cases that do not require SQL.
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As an open source database, Berkeley DB works on many different
platforms, from Wind River's Tornado system, to VMS, to
Windows NT and Windows 95, and most existing UNIX
platforms. It runs on 32 and 64-bit machines, little or big-endian.
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<span class="emphasis"><em>Berkeley DB Porting Guide</em></span> provides the information you need to
port Berkeley DB 11<span class="emphasis"><em>g</em></span> Release 2 (library version 11.2.5.2)
to additional platforms.
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<pre class="programlisting">/* File: gettingstarted_common.h */
typedef struct stock_dbs {
DB *inventory_dbp; /* Database containing inventory information */
DB *vendor_dbp; /* Database containing vendor information */
char *db_home_dir; /* Directory containing the database files */
char *inventory_db_name; /* Name of the inventory database */
char *vendor_db_name; /* Name of the vendor database */
} STOCK_DBS; </pre>
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