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diff --git a/system/tinycdb/README b/system/tinycdb/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3c3724c74c --- /dev/null +++ b/system/tinycdb/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +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. + +The SlackBuild will install both the binary cdb as well the system library for +use in other applications such as Postfix. |