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diff --git a/system/tinycdb/README b/system/tinycdb/README index 3c3724c74c..410c9385f7 100644 --- a/system/tinycdb/README +++ b/system/tinycdb/README @@ -1,16 +1,17 @@ -TinyCDB is a very fast and simple package for creating and reading constant -data bases, a data structure introduced by Dan J. Bernstein in his cdb -package. It may be used to speed up searches in a sequence of (key,value) -pairs with very big number of records. Example usage is indexing a big list -of users - where a search will require linear reading of a large /etc/passwd -file, and for many other tasks. It's usage/API is similar to ones found in -BerkeleyDB, gdbm and traditional *nix dbm/ndbm libraries, and is compatible -in great extent to cdb-0.75 package by Dan Bernstein. +TinyCDB is a very fast and simple package for creating and reading +constant data bases, a data structure introduced by Dan J. Bernstein +in his cdb package. It may be used to speed up searches in a sequence +of (key,value) pairs with very big number of records. Example usage +is indexing a big list of users - where a search will require linear +reading of a large /etc/passwd file, and for many other tasks. It's +usage/API is similar to ones found in BerkeleyDB, gdbm and traditional +*nix dbm/ndbm libraries, and is compatible in great extent to cdb-0.75 +package by Dan Bernstein. -CDB is a constant database, that is, it cannot be updated at a runtime, only -rebuilt. Rebuilding is atomic operation and is very fast - much faster than of -many other similar packages. Once created, CDB may be queried, and a query -takes very little time to complete. +CDB is a constant database, that is, it cannot be updated at a +runtime, only rebuilt. Rebuilding is atomic operation and is very fast +- much faster than of many other similar packages. Once created, CDB +may be queried, and a query takes very little time to complete. -The SlackBuild will install both the binary cdb as well the system library for -use in other applications such as Postfix. +The SlackBuild will install both the binary cdb as well the system +library for use in other applications such as Postfix. |