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diff --git a/databases/tinycdb/DESCR b/databases/tinycdb/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..84358a9ddbe --- /dev/null +++ b/databases/tinycdb/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +TinyCDB is a very fast and simple package for creating and reading +constant data bases, a data structure introduced by Dan J. Bernstein +in his cdb package. It may be used to speed up searches in a sequence +of (key,value) pairs with very big number of records. Example usage +is indexing a big list of users - where a search will require linear +reading of a large /etc/passwd file, and for many other tasks. It's +usage/API is similar to ones found in BerkeleyDB, gdbm and traditional +*nix dbm/ndbm libraries, and is compatible in great extent to +cdb-0.75 package by Dan Bernstein. + +CDB is a constant database, that is, it cannot be updated at a +runtime, only rebuilt. Rebuilding is atomic operation and is very +fast - much faster than of many other similar packages. Once created, +CDB may be queried, and a query takes very little time to complete. |