The Berkeley DB Book

The Berkeley DB Book offers a developer's perspective on the intricacies of Berkeley DB, and an in-depth analysis of many design issues. This book explains the technology at a high level, fully exploring the internals with generous code and design examples.

As a tool for developers, Berkeley DB is so flexible that it is difficult to understand the implications of different design choices. In this book you will get to see a developer's perspective on various intriguing design issues in Berkeley DB based applications and you will understand those design options and be able to decide which ones to choose under which condition.

It will be a complete reference for Berkeley DB Will be endorsed by and include a foreword by Margo Seltzer, one of the original co-creators of Berkeley DB It will explain through extensive code examples the various design issues that the developers come across while using Berkeley DB It will explain how Berkeley DB is different from relational database management systems and under what circumstances it will be more effective than those systems It will discuss the use of Berkeley DB in appliance frameworks, where Berkeley DB is increasingly gaining acceptance There is special focus on fault tolerance and high availability frameworks

Autorentext
Himanshu Yadava is a software developer and provides software design and development consultancy through his company BitSeer, Inc. His areas of interest include embedded databases, fault tolerance and monitoring/management frameworks. Previously, he has worked in various technical roles at Oracle, Kineto Wireless, ProactiveNet (now a part of BMC software) and Infosys Technologies. He maintains a Berkeley DB information page on his company's website, http://www.bitseer.com.

Klappentext

The Berkeley DB Book is a practical guide to the intricacies of the Berkeley DB. This book covers in-depth the complex design issues that are mostly only touched on in terse footnotes within the dense Berkeley DB reference manual. It explains the technology at a higher level and also covers the internals, providing generous code and design examples. In this book, you will get to see a developer's perspective on intriguing design issues in Berkeley DB-based applications, and you will be able to choose design options for specific conditions. Also included is a special look at fault tolerance and high-availability frameworks. Berkeley DB is becoming the database of choice for large-scale applications like search engines and high-traffic web sites.

Inhalt
to Berkeley DB.- When to Use Berkeley DB.- Products, Compilation, and Installation.- Building a Simple Application Using Berkeley DB.- to Advanced Data Stores.- Advanced Operations.- A Real-World Data Store.- Replication.- Distributed Transactions and Data-Distribution Strategies.- Berkeley DB Utilities.- Berkeley DB Java APIs.- Berkeley DB C API.