cdb

Utility to create and manipulate constant databases.

Constant databases acts as an on-disk key/value map providing very fast and reliable lookups.

More informations on djb’s website.

Features

• Create a new cdb from encoded records
• Dump existing cdb as encoded records
• Query a key to retrieve its value(s)
• Skip and/or print multiple records

Usage

Refer to cdb(1) manual page for details and examples. The below commands are provided as a quick introduction.

Create and query a constant database

cat <<EOF | cdb -m file.cdb
+3,5:one->Hello
+3,7:two->Goodbye
EOF

cdb -k one file.cdb
Hello

For more infomations about the input format, see cdb(5).

Installation

Edit config.mk as needed, then build/install with the following commands:

make
make install

Development

git clone git://z3bra.org/cdb.git

If you find any bug, please report them or send a patch to dev@z3bra.org.

Download

• cdb-1.2.tar.bz2
• cdb-1.1.tar.bz2
• cdb-1.0.tar.bz2
• LICENSE