Binary data as keys

#1

Is BDB capable of handling binary data as keys?
Thanks
Jack

#2

"Jack" <lucky7456969b (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> writes:

Quote:

Is BDB capable of handling binary data as keys?

Yes. In fact, Berkeley DB handles nothing but uninterpreted binary data,
as keys and values.

There may be surprising performance implications with Btrees and
unusual binary data, the classical case being little endian
integer keys.

best regards
Patrick

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Binary data as keys - 03-06-2006 , 03:45 AM

Re: Binary data as keys - 03-06-2006 , 04:48 AM