Berkeley DB Alternatives

Berkeley DB is described as '(BDB) is a software library that provides a high-performance embedded database for key/value data., Berkeley DB is the most widely used database toolkit in the world, with hundreds of millions of deployed copies' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Berkeley DB for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iPhone apps. The best Berkeley DB alternative is LevelDB, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Berkeley DB are Kyoto Cabinet, Apache Hive, QDBM and Tokyo Cabinet.

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    LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
    • LevelDB is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & Linux alternative to Berkeley DB.

    • LevelDB is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Berkeley DB.

    • LevelDB is Free and Open SourceBerkeley DB is also Free and Open Source
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    Kyoto Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Apache Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop for providing data summarization, query, and analysis.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length. Both binary data and character string can be used as a key and a value.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Tokyo Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    GNU dbm (or GDBM, for short) is a library of database functions that use extensible hashing and work similar to the standard UNIX dbm. These routines are provided to a programmer needing to create and manipulate a hashed database.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Fjall icon
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    Fjall is a log-structured embeddable key-value storage engine written in Rust. It features:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. LMDB icon
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    An ultra-fast, ultra-compact, crash-proof key-value embedded data store.

    13 LMDB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. RocksDB icon
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    RocksDB is an embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage. RocksDB can also be the foundation for a client-server database but our current focus is on embedded workloads.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
    • RocksDB is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Berkeley DB.

    • RocksDB is Free and Open SourceBerkeley DB is also Free and Open Source
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    Upscaledb is a software library that provides a high-performance embedded database for key/value data., It is written in C/C++ with API bindings for Java, Python, .NET, Erlang and other languages. Upscaledb databases have "types" (i.e.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
    • upscaledb is the most popular iPhone alternative to Berkeley DB.

    • upscaledb is Free and Open SourceBerkeley DB is also Free and Open Source
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