[Berkeley DB Announce] Berkeley DB 11gR2 (11.2.5.1.19)

[Announcements related to the Berkeley DB product family.]

Product Information:

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/berkeley-db/index.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index-085366.html


Product Downloads:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/downloads/index.html

http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-5.1.19.tar.gz
http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-5.1.19.zip
http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-5.1.19.msi
http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-5.1.19.NC.tar.gz
http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-5.1.19.NC.zip
-- NOTE: MD5 signatures to verify product file integrity are <download link>.md5

Product Release Overview:

Berkeley DB 5.1.19 is a major new revision of Berkeley DB with many new features, enhancements and bug fixes including:

* SQL API
	Enabled SQLite Online Backup command
	Enabled VACUUM command, But with BDB it's concurrent
	Enabled SQLite Encryption Extension Same SQLite APIs, but uses BDB AES encryption which can run in hardware when Intel encryption libraries are available (SQLite has optional paid-for encryption library extension)
	We provide instructions for using an ADO.NET driver for Windows
	Enable exclusive transactions
	Various performance improvements (Delete all, Index insert, Key lookups during join operations)
	Add .stat command to shell, enabling table and memory statistics display
	Add Binary file (BFILE) management API extensions
	Enable a file per table storage option
	Enable a single home directory for share resources among multiple databases
	Support for SQLite Write-Ahead Logging configuration
	Integrated SQLite library version 3.7.1.1
* Platforms
	iPhone platform support in addition to Android (added last release cycle)
* Replication
	Added db_replicate command line utility so now non-HA applications can quickly become HA/replicated applications with no new code, this includes SQL applications
	Enable HA configuration in DB_CONFIG configuration file
	HA transactions acknowledgment improvements
* Performance
	Add Bulk INSERT and DELETE to C# API
	Add Bulk Transactional Inserts flag to improve recoverable bulk insert operations (5-10% performance)
	Improve cursor lookup performance for multiple random lookups (% improvement depends on the query)
* Etc.
	Refined and extended support for Solaris Dtrace and Linux SystemTap to report on BDB internal events
	Enable DB_PRIVATE in DB_CONFIG configuration file

Consult the change log for the complete list of changes.
  http://download-llnw.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17076_02/html/installation/changelog_5_1.html


Product Documentation:

http://download-llnw.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17076_02/html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/db-faq-095848.html


Product Community, the Oracle Technology Network:

General Berkeley DB Questions:
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=271

Questions about Berkeley DB's Replication and High Availability (HA) features:
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=272

Licensing, Sales, and Other Questions: mailto:berkeleydb-info_us at oracle.com



Thank you for your support of Berkeley DB.

-greg

Greg Burd | Product Manager | Oracle Berkeley DB