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- AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
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- NDBM_File, DB_File, GDBM_File, SDBM_File, ODBM_File - various DBM
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- use AnyDBM_File;
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- This module is a "pure virtual base class"--it has nothing of its own.
- It's just there to inherit from one of the various DBM packages. It
- prefers ndbm for compatibility reasons with Perl 4, then Berkeley DB (See
- the _D_B__F_i_l_e manpage), GDBM, SDBM (which is always there--it comes with
- Perl), and finally ODBM. This way old programs that used to use NDBM
- via _d_b_m_o_p_e_n() can still do so, but new ones can reorder @ISA:
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- BEGIN { @AnyDBM_File::ISA = qw(DB_File GDBM_File NDBM_File) }
- use AnyDBM_File;
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- Having multiple DBM implementations makes it trivial to copy database
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- use POSIX; use NDBM_File; use DB_File;
- tie %newhash, 'DB_File', $new_filename, O_CREAT|O_RDWR;
- tie %oldhash, 'NDBM_File', $old_filename, 1, 0;
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- Here's a partial table of features the different packages offer:
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- odbm ndbm sdbm gdbm bsd-db
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- Linkage comes w/ perl yes yes yes yes yes
- Src comes w/ perl no no yes no no
- Comes w/ many unix os yes yes[0] no no no
- Builds ok on !unix ? ? yes yes ?
- Code Size ? ? small big big
- Database Size ? ? small big? ok[1]
- Speed ? ? slow ok fast
- FTPable no no yes yes yes
- Easy to build N/A N/A yes yes ok[2]
- Size limits 1k 4k 1k[3] none none
- Byte-order independent no no no no yes
- Licensing restrictions ? ? no yes no
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- [0] on mixed universe machines, may be in the bsd compat library, which
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- [1] Can be trimmed if you compile for one access method.
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- [2] See the _D_B__F_i_l_e manpage. Requires symbolic links.
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- [3] By default, but can be redefined.
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