Windows-like registry for Linux?

[Jerry Feldman]

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 10:46 pm, Paul Lussier wrote:

> Think if BerkeleyDB more as an on-disk hash than a RDBMS like
> PostgreSQL or Oracle.  It's extremely flexible (the subversion project
> has managed to coerce a file system into it :) and very fast.  Check out:
>
>   http://www.sleepycat.com - the makers of BerkelyDB.
Both gdbm (GNU DBM) and Berkeley DB are available on some Linux distros. In 
any case, I think the issue comes down to:
How much data is to be populated.
What the organization is going to be.

Both gdbm and Berkeley DB would probably work better than the Windows 
Registry, and with Berkeley you have a bit more flexibility. But, if we are 
talking about a relatively small amount of data that can be managed live in 
memory, then a shared memory approach is generally faster. But, I do think 
the GDBM or Berkeley DB are good choices.

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