Description: Berkeley DB: An embedded database programmatic toolkit.
Keywords: embedded,database,programmatic,toolkit,b+tree,btr ee,hash,hashing,transaction,transactions,locking,logging,access method,access me thods,java,C,C++

### Berkeley DB Reference Guide: Simple Tutorial

# Introduction

As an introduction to Berkeley DB, we will present a simple database application. This database application will:

- create a simple database
- store items
- retrieve items
- remove items
- close the database

The introduction will be presented using the programming language C.

The complete source of the final version of the example program is here.