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Most of the older Berkeley DB applications were written using the C API, while a large percentage of the applications being written today use the C++ or the Java API. The C API doesn’t have some of the higher-level constructs available in the C++ or the Java APIs. In that respect, the C API is primitive when compared to the other APIs. However, all other Berkeley DB APIs are wrappers around the C API. The Berkeley DB library itself has been implemented in C, and it even uses the C API methods internally. It is useful to understand how the lowest-level API works, even if you’re not planning to use it in your application.
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© 2007 Himanshu Yadava
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(2007). Berkeley DB C API. In: The Berkeley DB Book. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0317-9_12
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