Oracle Berkeley DB Product Family

The Oracle Berkeley DB family of open source, embeddable databases provides developers with fast, reliable, local persistence with zero administration. Often deployed as "edge" databases, the Oracle Berkeley DB family provides very high performance, reliability, scalability, and availability for application use cases that do not require SQL.

Oracle Berkeley DB Product Family
	Berkeley DB—A transactional storage engine for un-typed data in basic key/value data structures - NEW! Release 4.7 is now available
	Berkeley DB Java Edition—A pure Java version of Berkeley DB optimized for the Java environment - NEW! Release 3.3 is now available
	Berkeley DB XML—A native XML database with XQuery-based access to documents stored in containers and indexed based on their content - NEW! Release 2.4 is now available

All Berkeley DB products are designed with common set of characteristics:

To better understand which product in the Oracle Berkeley DB family best meets your needs, see Choosing the Right Product. Oracle Berkeley DB products are available in four different feature sets, each providing incrementally more functionality. To learn more, see Feature Sets.