[elephant-devel] Other BDBs?

[Ian Eslick]

A quick acronym decomposition will help here:

BDB = Berkeley DataBase
Sleepycat = the company that commercialized Berkeley's database code.

BDB is a library that implements on-disk BTrees, memory management,
transactions, etc.  It's possible to write a new backend to support
other databases based on tables of various kinds but it's a non-trivial
exercise, particularly to handle the foreign function calls to most
libraries.  The front-end of elephant provides support for a metaclass
protocol and a BTree API to manage persistent lisp objects and tables.

We do hope someday to have a native lisp backend.

I hope that is helpful,
Ian

Kevin Y. Kim wrote:
> Admittedly, I don't know much about Sleepycat BDB (or BDBs in general),
> but is it possible to use Elephant against other BDBs
> (i.e. GDBM, NDBM, QDBM)?  Just curious.
>
> Thanks,
> -kevin
>
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