SXP releases HampusDB, World’s First Open-Source Hybrid Database
Includes command-line utilities, interfaces to C, C++, Java, and Perl
Singapore, 13-July 2006 -- After several years as a proprietary database, HampusDB is now released as an Open Source product, free and available for download at http://www.hampusdb.org.
HampusDB is a flexible and efficient hybrid database, a mixture of a file system and a database. The aim is to fill the gap when storing data in a relational database is to rigid and storing data in text files is too cumbersome. A typical example would be XML, configuration or hierarchical data.
HampusDB comes with a wide range of command-line utilities for manipulating and extracting data. It's designed for both embedded, desktop, and server systems and currently runs on Linux and has interfaces to C, C++, Java, and Perl.
Key features include:
Scalable to terabytes of data, billions of records
Locking using multiple readers/single writers
Comes with client-server for multiple applications or direct file access API
Zero administration
Uses BerkeleyDB for underlying storage (db185, db3, db4)
Small code footprint
Source-code availability
Simple yet powerful C-API with wrappers to Java and Perl
Wide variety of command line applications
Works well with other UNIX command-line applications
Supports regular expression and globbing to query data
Regression test suite and example source included
Features can be added and removed using autoconf
System Requirements
HampusDB is developed on Linux. It comes with binary distribution for Red Hat Enterprise Linux or source release for other distributions and platforms. It is free and licensed under GNU Lesser Public License.
About SXP
SXP is an information technology company specialized in development of novel software concepts. For more information about SXP, visit our Web site at http://www.sxp.se.