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From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
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Subject: Re: Need freely-distributable C database library
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Date: 21 Feb 91 06:03:20 GMT
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In article <See ref> dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
>I need a database library for a project I am working on. ...
>
>The requirements are:
>
>	* Freely distributable
>	* Single key per record ...
>	* Variable record size - from a few bytes to over a megabyte
>	* No restrictions on content ...
>	* An entire database must be able to be fit in a single file

Berkeley Hash package fits this bill nicely. It also comes with byte-order
independence, and the usual permissive berkeley copyright. It also happens
to be the fastest such package available.

A version of this code should be ftp-able from ucbarpa. You may wish to
query margo@postgres.berkeley.edu about it. This package will be a regular
part of future berkeley distributions.

For gory implementation details of this package, see the paper in 1991
Winter Usenix Conference proceedings: "A New Hash Package for UNIX" by
Margo Seltzer and Ozan Yigit.

enjoy...		oz
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