[Appendix C] The Berkeley DB Database
Author: Bryan Costales & Eric Allman
Date: 1999-01-06T22:50:08Z

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| Appendix C |

# C. The Berkeley DB Database

Contents:
Overview
Get the Source
Compile and Install

## C.1 Overview

The database package from Berkeley is called `db`. It contains hash and btree routines and gets rid of many of the limitations that exist in earlier database versions (such as dbm(3) and ndbm(3)). If your site has, or expects to have, huge alias(5) files - say 2000 lines or more - or many database files, you should consider db to be mandatory. This new database is also recommended because its accesses and updates are considerably faster.

B.1 Status file lines |  | C.2 Get the Source