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      <p>
        The Berkeley DB  family of open source, embeddable databases
        provides developers with fast, reliable persistence with zero
        administration. Often deployed as "edge" databases, the Berkeley DB
        family provides very high performance, reliability, scalability,
        and availability for application use cases that do not require SQL.
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        As an open source database, Berkeley DB works on many different
        platforms, from Wind River's VxWorks system, to Windows, to 
        Android, and on most existing UNIX
        platforms. It runs on 32 and 64-bit machines, little or big-endian.
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        <span class="emphasis"><em>Berkeley DB Porting Guide</em></span> provides the information you need to
        port Berkeley DB 12<span class="emphasis"><em>c</em></span> Release 1 (library version 12.1.6.1) 
        to additional platforms.
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        <pre class="programlisting">/* File: gettingstarted_common.h */
typedef struct stock_dbs {
    DB *inventory_dbp; /* Database containing inventory information */
    DB *vendor_dbp;    /* Database containing vendor information */

    char *db_home_dir;       /* Directory containing the database files */
    char *inventory_db_name; /* Name of the inventory database */
    char *vendor_db_name;    /* Name of the vendor database */
} STOCK_DBS; </pre>
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