Windows-like registry for Linux?

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tuesday, Feb 14th 2006 at 14:16 -0500, quoth Michael ODonnell:

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=>>> A cow-orker is tasked with implementing a lean-
=>>> and-mean registry thingy that's maybe similar
=>>> to the Windows registry, or maybe not.  The real
=>>> goal is for multiple processes/threads to be able
=>>> to perform attribute lookups cheaply and reliably
=>>> and possibly VERY frequently (many thousands/sec)
=>>> with updates possible but very infrequent.
=>>> 
=>>> Anybody know of such a beast?    Maybe a library
=>>> that uses shared memory?
=>>
=>>I would suggest Berkeley DB.
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=>Cool.  Thanks.  Not that I have actual knowledge of
=>the subject, but I picture a DB engine as a somewhat
=>ponderous thang.  Would this fit the lean-and-mean
=>requirement?  I think all that's required is that a
=>bunch of cooperating processes be able to do these
=>attribute lookups; will linking them with a DB lib
=>bloat them unreasonably?  If not, then this may be
=>just what he's lookin for...

dbm is very fast up to 10s of millions of records. It's not sql so don't 
expect more. You give a key you get a value. Period. It's teenyweeny so 
all the different clients won't bloat from using them.

 man 3 gdbm

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