The library has a small footprint, and occupies as little as 300K of text space in applications. It is highly scalable, supporting databases as large as 256 terabytes. It supports multiple concurrent transactions, so that users can commit or roll back multiple changes simultaneously without conflicts. Berkeley DB survives system and application crashes and even hardware failures without losing data. It has a simple application programming interface, and requires no separate server or installation process.
Programmers can choose the data storage structure that best suits their application.
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