Duration
21 hours (usually 3 days including breaks)
Requirements
- Programming experience
Overview
Berkeley DB (BDB) is a software library intended to provide a high-performance embedded database for key/value data. Berkeley DB is written in C with API bindings for C++, C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, Tcl, and many other programming languages. Berkeley DB is not a relational database.
This course will introduce the architecture and capabilities of Berkeley DB and walk participants through the development of their own sample application using Berkeley DB.
Audience
- Application developers
- Software engineers
- Technical consultants
Format of the course
- Part lecture, part discussion, hands-on development and implementation, tests to gauge understanding
Course Outline
Introduction
Installing Berkeley DB
Configuring Berkeley DB
Database operations
Working with the Berkeley DB API
Creating transactional applications in Berkeley DB
Creating concurrent data stores
Cursor operations
Querying the database
Working with indexes
Replicating your application
Berkeley DB utilities
Building, configuring and updating Berkeley DB
Backup and recovery
Tuning Berkeley DB
Summary and conclusion