Oracle Berkeley DB, an Open Source Embedded Key/Value Database System (Lauren Foutz)

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Lauren Foutz

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Berkeley DB

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YouTube

In 1991, graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley created an improved database engine library for Unix they named Berkeley DB (BDB). When the up and coming web browser company Netscape requested that the authors extend and improve the library, Sleepycat Software was born to maintain BDB. In the following decades BDB has been deployed millions of times and... Read More