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Roman";color:navy">New Releases of Oracle Berkeley DB</span></i></b><span
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Subject:</span></b><span
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New Roman";color:navy"> </span><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
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New Roman""> Release Update<br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
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</span><span
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New Roman"">The newest release of Berkeley DB 12cR1
(12.1.6.1) is available now. Here is a summary of the new
features:</span><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New Roman""> upgrades </span></i></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New Roman"">to in-memory OLTP throughput & performance<b><i><br>
new</i></b> HA improvement to identify a single master in a
2 site replication group<b><i><br>
new </i></b>HA useability improvements<br>
<b>new </b>Blob support added into replication<br>
<b><i>removed </i></b>need for fail check monitor process<br>
<b><i>reduced </i></b><i>the time for a database backup<br>
<a
href="http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/berkeleydb/html/changelog_6_1.html"><span
style="color:blue">and a lot more</span></a>!</i></span><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Berkeley DB continues to <b>enable</b> the
most powerful embedded database solutions</span></i><span
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman""> Handle TBs of data with a 1MB library<br>
Flexible, lightweight storage engine, small footprint<br>
Runs on low power ARM devices to cluster of high-end servers<br>
Over 50 open source software projects embed BDB -- check them
out on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB"><span
style="color:blue">Wikipedia</span></a><br>
Completely customizable, choose from 5 different access methods<br>
Industrial quality and battle tested with over 200 million
deployments </span><span
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line-height:normal"><b><i><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">BDB is hands-down the best edge, mobile,
and embedded database available to developers. With the
flexibility to place log files and/or database in any
directory, applications can easily take advantage of the IO
performance of flash caches, flash disks or SSDs.</span></i></b><span
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Top notch performance</span></b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
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style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Berkeley DB performs over <b>5 million
operations</b> a second on a 100GB database running on a 1/8
rack Exadata V2 Database Machine configured with 256GB RAM and
12 cores.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
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style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Berkeley DB can insert 100 thousand records
in 72 milliseconds and read those records in 30 milliseconds,
running on a 8 core XEON-based commodity server. The records
contain a 4 byte key and a 48 byte data value. This was run
using the benchmark described on pages 34-36 in an <a
href="http://aka.ms/684751pdf"><span style="color:blue">ebook</span></a>
on SQL Server 2014 from Microsoft Press.</span><span
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">To put this into perspective, we compared
Berkeley DB to SQL Server 2014's In-Memory OLTP feature (code
name Hekaton) which has similar technology. Berkeley DB, an
open source product, is about 20% faster than SQL Server 2014
which takes 94 milliseconds for the same 100k insert
operations on an 8 core X64 Intel commodity box with 14 GB
memory.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> We are
making available a benchmark program in C that can be configured
to validate Berkeley DB throughput for the 100K insert test <a
href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/berkeleydb/learnmore/index.html"><span
style="color:blue">here</span></a>.</span><span
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">What folks are saying:</span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
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"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Open source
Fedora package maintainer, Lubomir Rintel, says "Berkeley DB has
quietly served behind the scenes as the database for the RPM
Package Manager. It has proven itself time and time again as a
robust and efficient storage engine. It stores the meta
information of the installed rpms. Under heavy workloads, BDB
proves itself reliable. Countless people that use popular Linux
distributions have used BDB through RPM and never knew it. With
this new release, BDB continues its tradition of being a solid
storage engine"<br>
<br>
Oracle Tape Product Manager, Dan Deppen, says "Berkeley DB is
integral to Oracle StorageTek Storage Archive Manager
(SAM-QFS). We have been embedding Berkeley DB in our product
for over a decade and it is vital to our disk archiving feature
which is used to send files to remote data centers to enable
disaster recovery. Performance and scalability are critical
because SAM-QFS supports some of the largest archive customers
in the world. HPC sites, research centers, national libraries
and other customers requiring massive scalability and high
reliability depend on SAM-QFS and Berkeley DB to maintain
availability of their critical data."<br>
<br>
Oracle Identity Management Vice President, Shirish Puranik,
says "Berkeley DB is a critical component of Oracle Unified
Directory (OUD) and Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition
(ODSEE). We have been using Berkeley DB in these products as a
high performance, transaction embedded database repository for
several years. Berkeley DB has exceed our expectations for
performance and stability. Our Berkeley DB based products are
widely deployed in production at largest telcos and financial
institutions all over the world. The improvements for BLOB
support and high availability in the 6.1 release are welcome."</span><span
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Software Downloads</span><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Downloads available today on the
<a
href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/downloads/index.html"><span
style="color:blue">Berkeley DB download page</span></a>. </span><span
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"Times New Roman"">Product <a
href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_04/html/index.html"><span
style="color:blue">Documentation</span></a></span><span
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